Adults

News, practice information and opinion on older people, disability and adult social care
Compass dial pointing to word 'performance'

Adults, Social work leaders

No plans to scrap single-word ratings for adults’ services, says government

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Community Care cover from 1997, depicting the 1997 Labour election win

Adults, Children, Workforce

Social work in the 2000s: New Labour’s focus on performance management

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Adults, Children, Workforce

Not the role of social work courses to train students in specialist practice areas, say academic leaders

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Care worker putting a bandage on a man's arm in his home.

Adults, Social work leaders

60% of community social care services have no or ‘outdated’ performance rating, analysis finds

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Adults, Workforce

‘Our clients were invisible until our team came into being’: leading a service supporting homeless people

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Budget folder and calculator

Adults, Children

£2.3bn boost to social care spending in 2023-24

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Young woman receiving counselling

Adults, Children

Half of Rape Crisis services expect to make cuts, despite growing demand from children’s social care

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Graph showing increasing workload

Adults, Social work leaders

DoLS referral numbers hit new record but practitioners cut backlog and average case timeframes

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Adults

Social workers split on paying more tax to increase spending on social care, poll finds

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Getting a call that is a scam

Adults, Inform Adults

Protecting adults from scams: top tips

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Mental health practitioner and client

Adults, Children

‘You don’t just sign section papers’: project to evidence value of AMHP role starts work

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A police car parked in Birmingham

Adults, Workforce

Racial or religious targeting of care workers ‘completely unacceptable’, says CQC

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Computer keys, two of which are marked 'accept' and 'reject

Adults, Social work leaders

‘Massive postcode lottery’ in access to adult social care revealed by data, say charities

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Person signing legal letter

Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

‘Change course on social care’, leaders tell government after scrapping of cap and training fund

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Female care worker on home visit showing her ID, close up

Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

£1bn shortfall in home care fees required to cover minimum wage, finds provider body’s research

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