Adults

News, practice information and opinion on older people, disability and adult social care
Blocks spelling out the word 'audit'

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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Houses of Parliament

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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A black social worker looking contemplative while working at laptop

Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

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

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Barnet mental health social workers striking outside the council's offices.

Adults, Workforce

Inside a social work strike: the staff fighting for a ‘safe service’

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Post-it note on a table with the word 'STRIKE' written on it

Adults, Workforce

City council latest to face social worker strike over pay inequalities between adults’ and children’s staff

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UNISON vice president Julia Mwaluke on the picket line with Barnet UNISON strikers

Adults, Workforce

Social workers to take 26 days’ further strike action in pay and staffing dispute

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Discussing about her problems

Adults, Choose Social Work, Inform Adults, Inform Children

Tips for coping with difficult conversations

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Social worker assessing/conducting therapeutic intervention with man

Adults, Children, Workforce

Social workers should be core part of community alcohol services, says proposed treatment guidelines

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Lyn Romeo, chief social worker for adults

Adults, Social work leaders

DHSC seeks new chief social worker for adults in £100k role

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Dial pointing at the word 'performance'

Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

CQC delivers initial verdict on council adults’ services under new assurance system

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Houses of Parliament

Adults, Children, Social work leaders

Minister sidesteps question on whether government will proceed with Mental Health Act reform

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Older woman looking downcast on sofa

Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

Social care inequalities deepening due to cost of living crisis and squeezed council budgets, says CQC

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Pad of paper with 'staff shortages' written on it

Adults, Children, Workforce

Social worker shortages leaving mental health patients without safeguards, leaders warn

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Home care worker speaking to older person

Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

Qualification levels and average pay have fallen for care workers, official data shows

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Dial pointed at the word 'strategy'

Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

Skills for Care to develop social care workforce strategy

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