Category: Community Care- Adults
People need to understand that their sexual partners must be able to give and maintain consent in order to have capacity to engage in sex, the Supreme Court has found. In its first major ruling on assessing capacity, the court rejected an appeal brought by a disabled man, JB, against a 2020 Court of Appeal […]
Staff shortages are driving a “rapidly deteriorating situation” for people needing care and their carers, directors warned today. Waits for assessments and care, commissioned home care left undelivered and provider failure are all increasing, despite more care being provided found an Association of Directors of Adult Social Services survey of members, covering August to October this […]
A council failed to take into account a man’s circumstances in deciding not to disregard the the costs of a holiday carer from his financial assessment, which meant that he could not go on holiday. The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has asked Northumberland council to review its decision not to consider this cost […]
MPs have backed a government amendment to change the cap on care costs in a way that would reduce its benefit for less wealthy people facing “catastrophic costs”. The change to the Care Act 2014 would mean that only client contributions to care costs will count towards the £86,000 cap for those receiving means-tested support […]
The government’s care funding reforms will do very little for those with longstanding needs and modest wealth, following changes that reduce their benefit for the less well-off. That was the warning today from Andrew Dilnot, whose commission devised the blueprint for the cap on care costs that the government will bring in from 2023, after […]
Directors have urged the government to fund a £1,000 winter bonus for adult social care staff in England to stem a mounting workforce crisis. The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services said the measure would show care work was valued and provide staff in England with the recognition counterparts in Scotland, Wales and Northern […]
Care home staff in England who are not fully Covid-19 vaccinated will not be able to work in homes from today amid mounting staff shortages and warnings of many more job losses to come from the policy and its extension next year to home care. The policy, which will also apply to many professional visitors […]
Adults’ services in England will need more social workers over the next two years to implement the government’s social care reforms, the chief social worker has said. Lyn Romeo told Community Care Live earlier this month that more practitioners would be needed to carry out assessments and support planning, under the reforms, which come into […]
By Mithran Samuel and Rob Preston (story updated) Increased funding for councils in England over the next three years is “not enough to address the disastrous situation in social care”. That was the warning from think-tank the Nuffield Trust, echoed by council leaders, charities and unions, after Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled the government’s autumn budget and […]
Just one in eight home care commissioners are paying providers the what they need to comply with minimum wage law and regulations and ensure the sustainability of services. That was the message from the Homecare Association in a report today, which compared the rate it calculates as the minimum required by home care providers – […]