Category: Community Care- Adults
Adults’ social workers and occupational therapists have taken a sixth day of strike action in pursuit of pay equality with children’s practitioners at their authority. The latest walkout by the UNISON members at South Gloucestershire Council, on Monday 12 June, comes with the authority having set up a “benchmarking exercise” with the union in an […]
Adults’ social workers and occupational therapists have gone back on strike over inequalities in pay with children’s colleagues at their council. The UNISON members at South Gloucestershire Council are walking out today (30 May) and on Thursday (1 June) in protest against the £3,000 recruitment and retention payments that children’s social workers at the authority […]
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 the story behind Finley Boden’s return to his parents to the Children’s Commissioner threatening legal action over the government’s asylum plans, here’s what you might have missed this week in social […]
The social care workforce has been boosted by 58,000 overseas staff over the past year, revealed government immigration figures published today. But while care homes have made a dent in record vacancy levels experienced in 2022, staffing gaps have remained stubbornly high in domiciliary care, according to separate data issued by Skills for Care. The […]
The Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) new system for assessing council adults’ services’ performance of their Care Act 2014 duties will be piloted by three councils over the coming months. The regulator’s work in Birmingham, Lincolnshire and Nottingham councils, which starts this month, will inform its rollout of its local authority assurance system this autumn. Inspectors […]
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 the missed opportunities that led to devastating first few months of the pandemic for social care to the true cost of the shortage in secure accommodation for children with complex needs, […]
By Pete Feldon A recent High Court judgment, which found that a local authority acted unlawfully in deciding how to meet a person’s needs, provides helpful guidance for practitioners on applying the Care Act 2014 and its statutory guidance. This article examines the importance of the judgment for decision-making about personal budgets and also responding […]
By Nick Perry, AMHP and visiting lecturer In February 2023, Community Care reported concerns from the Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHP) Leads Network about the risks to people in crisis from severe delays to Mental Health Act (MHA) assessments, on the back of rising demand since the Covid-19 pandemic. As someone working full-time in a […]
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 social worker’s tearful goodbye to a young person they had been supporting to the staggering value of unpaid carers, here’s what you might have missed this week in social […]
“Resource pressures” were behind the government’s decision to shelve the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS), according to the care minister. However, Helen Whately said the government remained committed to introducing the LPS to replace the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), in an appearance yesterday before Parliament’s health and social care select committee. Whately’s appearance, alongside the […]