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Adults, Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

10% national living wage hike will trigger adult social care cuts, councils warn

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Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

Government bar on overseas care staff bringing over families sparks workforce concerns

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Adults, Children, Workforce

Would you like to speak at Community Care Live 2024?

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Adults, Social work leaders

Councils need more funding to manage CQC adult services performance checks, leaders warn

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Adults, Workforce

Homelessness social work role valuable but rare, isolated and temporarily funded – study

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Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

10% pay rise for thousands of care workers as government announces national living wage rise

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Adults, Inform Adults

Tips for keeping assessment processes strengths-focused

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Adults, Social work leaders

Most councils rated good for adult social care in CQC pilot assessments

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Adults, Social work leaders

Social care staff carrying out tasks previously undertaken by NHS, without extra funding, say directors

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders

DHSC rejects experts’ plan to curb ‘inhumane’ solitary confinement of disabled people in hospital

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Shadow health and social care secretary Wes Streeting

Adults, Children, Social work leaders

Labour pledges to reform Mental Health Act if elected

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Victoria Atkins

Adults, Social work leaders

Adult social care gets fourth cabinet minister in two years

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Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

Cap on care costs: significant risks around plan to deliver delayed reform by 2025, says watchdog

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders

Mental Health Act reform ditched, King’s Speech confirms

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Blocks spelling out the word 'ineligible'

Adults, Social work leaders

Councils rationing adult social care through ‘subjective’ eligibility judgments, finds think-tank

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Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

Fast-track programme to train 320 more social workers in £19m contract extension

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