Category: Community Care- Adults
Social workers are to be allowed to opt out of the proposed assisted dying process, the legislation’s sponsor has pledged. Labour’s Kim Leadbeater has promised to work with fellow MPs to amend her Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill to ensure practitioners other than health professionals are allowed not to participate. While social workers […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Experienced care workers were earning just 4p per hour more on average than newcomers to the sector as of December 2024, according to new Skills for Care data. This is the smallest pay gap between independent […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Over three million families will lose an average of £1,720 per year in real terms by 2029-30, as a result of proposed changes to disability and incapacity benefits, the government has estimated. This includes 370,000 people […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Think Ahead has raised concerns about cuts to mental health social work job numbers as it launched a campaign for the government to invest in thousands more roles. The fast-track social work training provider said it […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. MPs have overturned an exemption for adult social care providers from the forthcoming increase in employer national insurance contributions (NICs), in what leaders have described as a “devastating blow” to the sector. In a vote today, […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Many disabled people are facing benefit cuts in a government plan to save over £5bn a year by 2029-30 and get more people with health conditions into work, announced yesterday. Access to personal independence payment (PIP) […]
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has set out lessons from the first tranche of assessments of local authority adults’ services since it resumed performance checks in December 2023. It said that support for carers was in need of improvement, while authorities also needed to enhance their understanding of population equality and diversity issues and use […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. By Tim Spencer-Lane The Mental Health Bill, which would amend the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA), has now passed through committee stage in the House of Lords after five days of debate. This stage allows peers […]
By Deborah Rozansky, Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) Reablement services play a critical role in maintaining people’s independence and quality of life. Most frequently used to support people’s recovery after a hospital stay, reablement can also be preventive, reducing the need for hospital admissions or long-term residential care. However, our research has shown that […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. A lack of staff and hospital beds, at a time of “overwhelming demand”, is leading to “harmful” gaps in mental healthcare, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has said. As a result, people were being discharged prematurely, […]