Category: Community Care- Adults
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has issued its first inadequate judgment since it started assessing English councils on their adult social care performance in December 2023. Blackpool Council became the first of the 54 authorities graded so far to receive the bottom rating, after the CQC found a culture of the authority making decisions for […]
This article provides tips from Community Care Inform Adults’ guide on mental health and managing debt. The guide looks at why people might struggle to get help, how to recognise the signs and what social workers can do to support people. It also includes a list of useful resources to help guide mental health and […]
The number of British people working in adult social care continued to fall ahead of the government’s ban on providers recruiting staff from abroad, Skills for Care has revealed. While the sector vacancy rate fell to pre-Covid levels and the numbers working in adult social care in England reached a record high in 2024-25, these […]
The ban on recruiting care workers or senior care workers from abroad on skilled worker visas has come into force. The immigration rule change means adult social care providers will not be able to sponsor new staff from abroad on the health and care worker visa to work in these roles. Care workers or senior […]
Overspending on adult social care budgets hit a 10-year high last year, in part due to costs being shunted onto councils as a result of NHS cuts, including to continuing healthcare, directors have reported. The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services’ (ADASS) annual spring survey also revealed that councils had cut spending on preventive […]
The government will produce a national strategy for quality in adult social care after a review found there had been a lack of attention paid to what constitutes good services in the sector. In a parliamentary statement, health and social care secretary Wes Streeting said that the government had accepted in full all the recommendations […]
A fifth of directors of adult social services have “no confidence” that their budgets will be sufficient for them to meet their Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards duties this year (DoLS). The finding, from the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services’ as yet unpublished spring survey, was revealed in a joint letter from ADASS and […]
Social care practitioners will form part of the neighbourhood health teams that are to be at the heart of a reformed NHS, under the government’s 10-year plan, published today. Ministers plan to to create neighbourhood health services in every area, designed to deliver care as locally as possible, including in a person’s own home where […]
Access to care for older people in England is “poor and unjust”, an analysis has found. There was a fourfold difference between the councils with the highest and lowest proportions of older adults receiving funded long-term care, said the Institute for Government (IfG). While some of this was related to factors known to drive need, […]
This article provides tips from Community Care Inform’s guide on unconscious bias in social care. The guide is written by Sneha Khilay, managing director of Blue Tulip Consultancy, which provides bespoke training and consultancy on equality, diversity, inclusion, unconscious bias, bullying and harassment. It looks at types of unconscious bias, how such biases are formed […]