Category: Community Care- Adults
This article presents practice tips from Community Care Inform Adults’ guide on working with adults who are deafblind. The full guide gives an awareness and understanding of the complexities of deafblindness, and the social care law and policy that relates to deafblind people. It also provides guidance on the areas to pay particular attention to […]
Over four in ten adult social care providers closed parts of their organisation or handed back contracts last year because of cost pressures, driven in particular by staffing shortages, a survey has found. Almost one in five said they were providing care to fewer people, while a similar proportion said they made redundancies in 2023, […]
By James Codling With a worrying frequency, I am hearing in training sessions, and in practice across the country, the following statements: “We require the person’s consent before we undertake a safeguarding adults enquiry.” “Have we assessed [insert name]’s capacity to consent to the safeguarding enquiry?” Neither of these are in line with the Care […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. During my assessed and supported year in employment (ASYE), I was struck by how consistently ‘improving emotional resilience’ came up as a personal development goal. Social work is known for being a demanding profession, requiring a […]
This article presents practice tips from Community Care Inform Adults’ guide on working with adults who are deafblind. The full guide gives an awareness and understanding of the complexities of deafblindness, and the social care law and policy that relates to deafblind people. It also provides guidance on the areas to pay particular attention to […]
The government has handed social care an extra £500m for 2024-25 following last-ditch pleas for ministers to ease funding pressures on councils. Levelling up secretary Michael Gove announced the top-up to the planned local government settlement for the coming financial year, in a statement to Parliament today. The funding will top-up the existing social care […]
The number of detentions under the Mental Health Act 1983 in England has fallen for a second consecutive year, but significant racial disparities persist, official figures have shown. MHA detention numbers fell by 7.7% on a like-for-like basis from 2021-22 to 2022-23, following a 5.7% drop the year before, showed data released yesterday by NHS […]
By Gerry Nosowska Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. “The locality manager is looking at the referrals coming into the team. It is double what it was a year ago. On the screen there are 89 contacts waiting for attention today, the […]
A strike-hit council is struggling to deliver an approved mental health professional service (AMHP), it had admitted. Swindon council said that recruitment problems were affecting its ability to consistently deliver an AMHP service and it was working to address the issue. Its admission came after trade union GMB said Swindon now had just one approved […]
The government will give councils funding to train more staff as social workers in adults’ services through apprenticeships. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) will give councils and adult social care providers just over £20m between them to fund social work and nursing apprenticeships in 2024-25. The DHSC announced the funding yesterday, alongside […]