Category: Community Care- Adults
If you have a Community Care Inform Children or Community Care Inform Adults licence, did you know you can use your account to record CPD? The ‘My CPD’ feature is a straightforward way to record learning from our resources and other experiences. Question prompts match Social Work England’s requirements, supporting you to critically reflect on […]
A £388m winter funding boost for adult social care announced yesterday by the government is “too little too late”, a provider body has warned. Third sector umbrella organisation the National Care Forum made the criticism after the Department of Health and Social Care unveiled the package the day before it came into force. Running until […]
by Maya Haddad, Dr Alison Beck and Dr Katherine Belton Previous research has highlighted the risk factors associated with high stress among care home staff, including high staff turnover and absenteeism and staff malpractice. But the fragmentation of care home provision, both in terms of different types and sizes of providers of services and the […]
Councils investigated more adult safeguarding cases involving self-neglect and domestic abuse last year, but carried out fewer enquiries overall, despite a rise in referrals, show official figures. The number of concerns reported to local authorities rose by 5% to 498,260, reported NHS Digital’s annual safeguarding adults collection, published last week. However, the number of enquiries […]
By Tim Spencer-Lane Unlike the NHS, social care is not a free, universal service; local authorities have always been able to charge for services. This means that service users are sometimes exposed to potentially very high and unpredictable care costs and face the prospect of losing the majority of their income and assets. In an […]
The government’s proposed reforms to social care funding “will not add a single minute of extra care and support, or improve the quality of life for older people, disabled people and unpaid carers”, the Association of Directors of Adults Social Services (ADASS) has said this week. ADASS issued the warning in a statement in which it […]
A local authority failed to meet a care home resident’s needs after his capital fell below the threshold triggering eligibility for public funding, an investigation has found. Merton council had assessed Mr Y and found he had eligible needs in June 2020, after his capital fell below the £23,250 limit, but left him funding his […]
By Laura Pritchard-Jones Covid-19, and the response to the pandemic, has presented extraordinary challenges to the care sector. New research funded by the Health Foundation and led by researchers at Keele University, however, sheds light on how creativity has played the biggest role in continuing adult safeguarding practice within the constraints of the challenges posed […]
By Mithran Samuel and Thomas Smith (story corrected, 15 September 2021*) The government has resurrected plans to cap care costs and make the care means-test more generous, four years after ditching them. The £86,000 cap on care liabilities is the centrepiece of the government’s long-awaited reform of adult social care funding in England, announced today […]
The government has been granted permission to appeal against a High Court decision overturning its approach to determining the ordinary residence of people receiving aftercare under the Mental Health Act 1983. The Court of Appeal will consider whether the lower court was wrong to accept Worcestershire council’s challenge to a determination by the health and […]