About Rachel Carter

Rachel Carter is Community Care's adults social care journalist

Author Archive | Rachel Carter

Adults

‘Social care has united to speak truth to power on the risk to services’

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Adults, Workforce

‘We were desperate to have the scope for creative social work – now we do’

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inspection

Adults

Social care cases to be audited after user-group claims council breached Care Act

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Mental Health

Deprivation of liberty court cases triple but fall short of Cheshire West predictions

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Adults

CQC finds staff at deaf college ridiculed young people for their disabilities

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Adults, Workforce

Council gave ‘no good reason’ not to comply with top-up fee recommendations

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Adults, Mental Health, Workforce

Government funds expansion of mental health social work fast-track scheme

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Adults, Children, Workforce

Entries open for 2016 Social Worker of the Year Awards

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Adults

NHS should employ more social workers, says chief social worker for adults

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Adults

Care Act information gaps preventing timely assessments of need, finds research

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Adults, Workforce

Adult services increasingly turning to newly qualified social workers

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Care Act

Adults

Care Act 2014: councils told to give principal social workers power to improve practice

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Adults, Workforce

Too few CQC inspectors completing Mental Capacity Act training, watchdog admits

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Adults, Workforce

Social workers’ values influence assessment outcomes more than eligibility thresholds

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Adults

Service user outcomes ‘at risk’ from council plans to target personal budgets for savings

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Adults

Council cuts proposals ‘fly in face of Care Act’ and risk legal challenge

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