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Andy McNicoll is Community Care’s news editor.

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Mental Health

‘Staff are firefighting, service users suffer’: views on the mental health funding shortage

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Mental Health

Mental health trust funding down 8% from 2010 despite coalition’s drive for parity of esteem

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David Pearson

Adults

Social care system ‘unsustainable’ without protected funding, directors warn

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Adults

Southern Health set to lose £5m learning disability contract after ‘significant concerns’ over care

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Adults

Councils to test ‘community-led’ social work models using Care Act freedoms

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Adults, Workforce

Romeo sets ‘national benchmark’ for adult social work practice

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Adults

Drive to improve social workers’ Mental Capacity Act compliance delayed by Dols judgement

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Mental Health

Vulnerable children detained in police cells as ‘substitute’ for health and social care

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Children, Mental Health

Safeguarding fears over children’s mental health bed shortage

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Adults

Lamb: ‘Families won’t tolerate learning disability reforms being ditched post-election’

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Adults, Mental Health

Give people with learning disabilities right to a named social worker, says Lamb

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Mental Health, Workforce

Social work employers that partner fast-track scheme will get £7,000 per student

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Adults

Early self-funder assessments vital to avoid ‘unmanageable’ Care Act burden, says DH

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Mental Health

Government rejected proposals for four-hour waits for mental health emergencies

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Adults

Staff ‘distressed’ by NHS Trust’s response to death of man with learning disabilities

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Adults

Learning disability survey paints damning picture of coalition’s track record

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