Category: Community Care- Adults
The Care Quality Commission is “not fit for purpose”, health and social care secretary Wes Streeting has declared, after a damning report found significant failings within the regulator. These were hampering its ability to identify poor performance at the services it regulates, residential homes, nursing homes and domiciliary care providers, found the interim report of […]
by Ray Jones Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. This article on social work in the 1990s is the third in a five-part series by Professor Ray Jones for Community Care’s 50th anniversary. Each part will look back at key events from […]
This article provides practice tips from Community Care Inform’s guide on adults who self-harm. The full guide covers the signs that social workers should be aware of that may indicate self-harm, the risks associated with particular groups or situations and what to do if self-harm is confirmed. The guide was updated in July 2024 by […]
Overseas recruitment has driven a second consecutive annual increase in the size of the adult social care workforce, Skills for Care has reported. The number of filled posts in the sector grew by 70,000, from 1.635m to 1.705m, while the number of vacancies fell from 153,000 (9.9%) to 131,000 (8.3%), in the year to March […]
The government must delay “unfunded” adult social care charging reforms by at least a year as most local authorities are not prepared to deliver them by the target date of October 2025, county council leaders warned today. Authorities would need an additional 4,443 social work staff to deliver the reforms, which include an £86,000 cap […]
The government needs to boost funding for social work bursaries, placements and apprenticeships to attract more people into the profession and tackle persistently high vacancy and turnover rates. It should also invest in the development of social workers at different levels, while also taking action to tackle racial inequalities in the social care workforce. That […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. The new Labour government has pledged to legislate to strengthen the child protection in its first King’s Speech, unveiled today. The long-awaited reform of the Mental Health Act 1983 and action to deliver “fair pay” for […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Adult social care faces its “worst financial outlook” for at least seven years on the back of rising levels and complexity of need and costs being shifted from the NHS, a survey of directors has revealed. […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Mental health social workers returned to work yesterday after a nine-week strike. The Barnet Council practitioners, represented by UNISON, have taken 81 days’ strike action in total since September 2023 in a dispute over staffing levels […]
Bolstering approved mental health professionals’ (AMHP) role in preventing detention in hospital can “vastly reduce” use of the Mental Health Act within the existing law, say service heads. The AMHP Leads Network made the claim as charities urged the new Labour government to bring forward a bill to replace the MHA in its first legislative […]