Category: Community Care- Adults
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. The government will end the recruitment of care workers from abroad later this year, home secretary Yvette Cooper announced today. Cooper told the BBC’s Laura Kuennsberg that social care providers would no longer be able to […]
The launch of the Casey Commission this week follows a long line of unsuccessful attempts to reform adult social care in England over recent decades. This has left the sector weary and sceptical about the prospects of yet another attempt at solving its multiple problems: unmet and undermet need, inconsistent and, in some cases, poor-quality […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. The Casey Commission has been tasked with producing a plan next year for delivering a “national care service” over the course of a decade. The 2026 report will be followed by a further report, due by […]
This article provides practice tips from Community Care Inform’s guide on advance decisions and advance statements. Written by Sam Cox, an independent consultant on the Mental Capacity Act, the guide covers how to make an advance statement, advice on healthcare and what an advance decision cannot do. Inform Adults subscribers can access the full content […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Keir Starmer has been urged to “save supported housing” in England in the face of a “financial crisis” facing the sector. The call came in a letter to the prime minister and chancellor Rachel Reeves from […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. The government has renewed funding to help overseas care staff who have lost work and are facing removal from the UK due to “unethical” employment practices or providers not complying with visa rules. However, the Department […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Social workers believe the government’s proposed changes to disability benefits will put greater pressure on social care services and increase poverty, a poll has found. Under the plans, eligibility for personal independence payment (PIP) – the main […]
The government has launched a new qualification to enhance social care leaders’ digital skills but has been criticised by a provider body for covering a “tiny fraction” of the sector’s training costs. Health and social care secretary Wes Streeting launched the level 5 award in understanding digital leadership in adult social care last week, saying […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. The rise in employers’ national insurance contributions (NICs), which came into force yesterday (6 April 2025), risks causing harm to people with care needs and more strain for carers, care provider leader have warned. Sector associations […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Social workers are the least likely adult social care staff group to feel valued or that they are making a difference to the people they support, government-commissioned research has found. As a result of this, and […]