Category: Community Care- Adults
The government risks widespread care home closures if it doesn’t provide councils with significantly more funding to pay providers a “fair cost of care”, a report has warned. Current funding plans are £850m a year short of what is required to enable care homes to deal with the impact of self-funders being able to arrange […]
The government has selected five councils to pilot the cap on care costs and accompanying social care funding reforms from next January. The “trailblazer” authorities – Blackpool, Cheshire East, the London Borough of Newham, North Yorkshire and Wolverhampton – will implement the reforms nine months before their national rollout in October next year. The Department […]
By Tim Spencer-Lane, legal editor, CC Inform The draft Mental Capacity Act Code of Practice was published for public consultation on 17 March. It has been updated to reflect new legislation and case law, and other developments, for example in ways of working and good practice, since the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) came into […]
By Tim Spencer-Lane, legal editor, CC Inform The draft updated Mental Capacity Act Code of Practice, was published for public consultation on 17 March. As well as updating the existing MCA code, the updated version also includes details on how the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) should be implemented. The LPS is the new scheme for authorising […]
By Alice Osborne (this article was written for World Down Syndrome Day – 21 March) In 2017, we welcomed our second child, Ted, into the world. Ted was diagnosed postnatally with Down syndrome when he was three weeks old. His Down syndrome hadn’t been identified when he was first born, which is unusual. I can […]
The govrnment today launched its long-awaited consultation on implementing the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) and a revised code of practice on the Mental Capacity Act 2005. However, despite multiple delays, it did not set a new date for the implementation of the LPS, which is due to replace the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) and […]
The social care sector today honours the more than 900 staff who lost their lives to Covid-19. Twenty one sector bodies have organised a day of remembrance and reflection to pay tribute to social care workers who died from the disease during the course of the pandemic. Workforce development body Skills for Care said an […]
Story updated 20 March Councils could consider outsourcing Care Act needs assessments to external organistions in order to manage the workforce demands of implementing the cap on care costs, the goverment has said. With the policy expected to result in hundreds of thousands more assessments and reviews a year, the Department of Health and Social […]
Councils could consider outsourcing Care Act needs assessments to external organistions in order to manage the workforce demands of implementing the cap on care costs, the goverment has said. With the policy expected to result in hundreds of thousands more assessments and reviews a year, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has already […]
Mandatory Covid-19 vaccination for staff and professional visitors to care homes will end on 15 March, the government announced today. The decision also means regulations that would have introduced a requirement for staff in regulated home and other care services to be double jabbed from April will also be scrapped. The announcement came after the […]