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Burstow urges social workers to overhaul 'crisis' care system
The care services minister has put social workers at the heart of his plans to transform social care from a "high-dependency service" to one that supports people to stay independent.
18 May 2012
Knowledge gap puts social workers at risk of breaking law
Children's social workers lack knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, meaning they could be breaching the legislation in child protection cases involving parents with learning disabilities, warn experts.
23 May 2012
Filling the gap for learning disabled people with dementia
The number of people with learning disabilities who develop dementia is growing fast, but there is a lack of specialist support, says psychiatrist Shekhar Mukherji, director of Mentaur Ltd, which has just opened a service for the client group.
22 May 2012
Half of learning disability services not meeting core standards
Half of the learning disability services inspected by the Care Quality Commission in the wake of Winterbourne View are not meeting essential standards on safeguarding residents and caring for them. The CQC said the findings were a cause for concern.
18 May 2012
Councils rapped over service failures for disabled girl
Two local authorities have been criticised by a local government ombudsman after failing to provide adequate services to a 12-year-old girl with multiple disabilities and complex needs.
02 May 2012
Invest in social care to revive economy, government told
Boosting investment in social care through tax breaks and incentives to start up new providers could help revive the economy's flagging fortunes, the government was told today.
02 May 2012
Families to challenge practitioners on Mental Capacity Act
Families are being supported to challenge professionals who exclude them from decisions taken on behalf of their loved-ones under the Mental Capacity Act 2005.
24 April 2012
Complex care training key to good-quality home care
Home care providers must train up their workforces to support the rising number of clients with complex care needs, says Rebekah Newton, clinical director at Ark Complex Care.
09 March 2012
CQC: Personalisation lacking in Winterbourne-style services
Many learning disability hospitals and care homes are failing to provide person-centred care, the Care Quality Commission has found in its national review triggered by the Winterbourne View case.
08 February 2012
Social workers urged to help halt forced marriage visas
Border staff are to ask social workers to carry out assessments of learning disabled people's capacity to consent to marry in order to stop visas being granted to foreign spouses in such cases.
05 April 2012
NHS safeguarding training squeezed by anti-terrorism strategy
NHS training in safeguarding is being squeezed by requirements to train staff in identifying adults at risk of becoming terrorists, it has been claimed.
02 April 2012
Social worker deprivation of liberty assessments unmonitored
The Care Quality Commission has raised concerns over the protection of vulnerable adults because of its inability to monitor deprivation of liberty assessments by social workers and other professionals. (Image: Milton Montenegro/Photodisc/Getty Images)
27 March 2012
How service users are leading response to Winterbourne View
In the wake of Winterbourne View, the Care Quality Commission employed 27 adults with learning disabilities to act as ‘experts by experience’ in the teams inspecting 150 learning disability services. Two of them discuss their experiences.
20 March 2012
Where social workers go wrong in assessing mental capacity
Social workers need to work harder to enable service users to make decisions for themselves, says independent mental capacity advocate and consultant Natalie Saunders. (Image: Purestock/Getty Images)
12 March 2012
Many deprived of liberty without safeguards, warn experts
Many vulnerable service users are being deprived of their liberty without safeguards because of the narrow scope of the law, experts have warned.
29 February 2012
Independent living for disabled at risk from cuts, say MPs
Independent living for disabled people is being put at risk by the combined impact of cuts to social care and benefits, MPs and peers warned today. (Image: Fotex/Rex)
01 March 2012
Social worker banned for inappropriate conduct towards carers
A social worker has been struck off the social care register for misconduct that included inappropriate and sexually motivated behaviour towards two carers.
24 February 2012
MPs: Disabled people to lose out from 'medical model' reform
Disabled people risk losing out because government benefit reforms are overly based on the medical model of disability, MPs have warned in a report.
20 February 2012
Safeguarding failings left disabled couple at mercy of abuser
Safeguarding failings by social work staff left a learning disabled couple at the mercy of a relative who used power of attorney to abuse them for six years, an investigation has found.
16 February 2012
How telecare can defuse chronic conditions timebomb
Walsall is making telecare a default component of care packages to boost independence for people with chronic conditions and manage the rising costs of supporting this group, says council adult care director Paul Davies.
10 February 2012
