Category: Community Care- Adults
This article presents a few key pieces of advice from Community Care Inform Adults’ guide on safeguarding adults living with dementia, last updated in June 2023. The full guide outlines the challenges and dilemmas that arise in the practical implementation of safeguarding and risk assessment in dementia care, and gives advice on the steps to […]
Social Work Recap is a weekly series in which we present key news, events, conversations, tweets and campaigns around social work from the preceding week. This week’s includes a call from social workers and students for government to increase bursaries for trainees in England, a survey from the Children’s Commissioner for England on whether care […]
The government has moved £600m originally destined for social care reform into helping councils meet existing pressures on adults’ services over the next two years. Most of the funding – £570m – is designed to increase the capacity of the workforce – with vacancy rates hitting 9.9% as of March this year – though councils […]
This article presents a few key pieces of advice from Community Care Inform Adults’ guide on safeguarding adults living with dementia, last updated in June 2023. The full guide outlines the challenges and dilemmas that arise in the practical implementation of safeguarding and risk assessment in dementia care, and gives advice on the steps to […]
A “tail of very bad employers in the social care sector” are exploiting overseas staff brought to the UK to fill gaps caused by endemic low pay, a government adviser has warned. Migration Advisory Committee chair Brian Bell has also castigated ministers for their failure to respond to an April 2022 MAC report they themselves […]
Councils would continue to employ social workers and other social work staff under the Scottish Government’s plan to establish a National Care Service across the country. The government’s original plan was to transfer councils’ social work functions – including staff – to the NCS, or regional care boards set up to deliver services on its […]
Social Work Recap is a weekly series where we present key news, events, conversations, tweets and campaigns around social work from the preceding week. From Joe Swash’s documentary on teenagers leaving care and a social worker’s case recording tips to a report on how government failings affected disabled people from ethnic minorities during Covid, here’s […]
Police forces across England will, in future, stop attending mental health-related incidents unless there is a significant risk to safety or a crime being committed, and refer cases to health or social care services instead. The plan, announced today by the government, police leaders and NHS England, constitutes the start of a national rollout of […]
Social Work Recap is a weekly series where we present key news, events, conversations, tweets and campaigns around social work from the preceding week. From a report warning of inadequate risk assessments increasing the vulnerability to domestic abuse by people on probation to an initiative calling for better care for pregnant women involved with children’s services, […]
Adult social care vacancy numbers have fallen slightly from an all-time high over the past year, but remain over 150,000, show figures released today. The number of empty posts fell from 165,000 to 152,000 in the year to March 2023, revealed Skills for Care’s annual State of the adult social care sector and workforce in […]