Category: Community Care- Adults
Councils in England will share £4m to help them prepare for assessments of their adult social services by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). The Department of Health and Social Care is giving each of the 153 authorities a £26,730 one-off payment to help familiarise themselves with the process and effectively engage with their first assessment. […]
With significant and growing workload pressures, it can be difficult for practitioners to find time to engage with learning and development. To support you in your daily practice, Community Care Inform is introducing new bite-sized content that delivers key information in small, easily digestible chunks. The first set of infographics focuses on the essential aspects […]
Lyn Romeo will step down as England’s chief social worker for adults in January after just over a decade in the post. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said Romeo was taking retirement. “Lyn Romeo CBE will step down as chief social worker for adults at the end of January as she is […]
By Tim Spencer-Lane Determining the ordinary residence of a service user is sometimes a highly contested matter. This is mainly because ordinary residence will normally determine which local authority is responsible for arranging and funding a person’s care plan. Under section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA) there is the added ingredient that […]
Mental health social workers have voted to strike over “chronic staffing issues” in their teams. Barnet UNISON said 100% of those who voted backed a walkout on a 79% turnout, in a ballot conducted last month. The union is now planning strike dates for the staff in the London borough’s north and south mental health […]
The government has launched a strategy to “rapidly reduce” England’s suicide rate, which has remained stuck since 2018 amid increasing numbers of deaths of children and young people. Ministers want to see the current rate fall within the next two-and-a-half years and have set out more than 100 measures to achieve this in the five-year […]
The government has increased funding for adult social care to help tackle NHS pressures this winter by £10m. Councils will be able to bid from a pot of £40m – up from £30m – for cash to help prevent hospital admissions and speed up discharges from wards. The funding will be allocated to areas deemed […]
The probation service is failing to carry out necessary child protection and domestic abuse checks when carrying out risk assessments on offenders, inspectors have warned. Officers only made child safeguarding enquiries with council children’s services in 55% of cases where inspectors concluded they should have been made, according to their analyses of cases involving offenders […]
Most home care providers have seen a fall in the number of hours of care councils have commissioned from them, research has found. Half of agencies (48%) reported a fall of 25% in the number of hours of care available to them to deliver, with a further 32% reporting decreases of less than this, found […]
This article presents practice tips from Community Care Inform Adults’ guide on self neglect: working with adults who hoard, last updated in July 2023. The full guide gives an understanding of the different types of hoarding and the reasons why someone might hoard, and outlines the legal framework for working with people who hoard. Inform […]