Tag Archives | adult social care funding

Home care worker speaking to older person

Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

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

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Graph showing increasing workload

Adults, Social work leaders

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

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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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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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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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Dial pointing at the word 'performance'

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£4m to help councils prepare for CQC adults’ services checks

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

Adults, Social work leaders

Most home care providers have seen fall in number of hours commissioned by councils – survey

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Minister for care Helen Whately (Credit: Department of Health and Social Care)

Adults, Social work leaders

£10m boost to adult social care funding to tackle NHS winter pressures

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The word 'funding' spelt out in blocks against the background of some graphs

Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

Government shifts £600m destined for social care reform into tackling immediate pressures on services

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Jigsaw puzzle showing supply demand gap

Adults, Social work leaders

60,000 cut in social care waiting lists but need continues to mount, says ADASS

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Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

ADASS president: ‘If you see black women in leadership, you believe you can achieve that too’

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Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

Raise pay, cut charges and provide rights to support: report for ADASS sets roadmap for ‘saving social care’

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Government drops pledge to invest in new social work training routes

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Adults, Children, Workforce

Social Work Recap: World Social Work Day, child poverty and Love Island

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Jigsaw puzzle showing supply demand gap

Adults, Social work leaders

Rationing, not strengths-based practice, likely to explain fall in numbers receiving care, finds study

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders, Workforce

Social Work Recap: the value of disabled people’s voices and the scale of adult care’s funding shortfall

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