Tag Archives | adult social care funding

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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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Adults, Social work leaders

Councils underfunded adult care services by at least £2.9bn in 2021-22, provider analysis suggests

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Adults, Social work leaders

More people face paying for care as means-test threshold is frozen for 13th year

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Adults, Social work leaders

Councils to face targets in return for adult social care funding

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Adults, Social work leaders

Cost of care analyses show councils lack funding to pay providers fair price, warn directors

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Adults, Social work leaders

40% of people delayed in hospital awaiting social care package

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Adults, Social work leaders

Risk of ‘poor or potentially illegal’ practice in care home discharge plan, warns ADASS

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Adults, Social work leaders

Care home discharge plan risks inappropriate placements and neglects causes of crisis – sector

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Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

£200m for NHS to buy short-term care placements to speed up discharge

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders

Pause ‘disruptive’ National Care Service plan to tackle funding shortfalls, councils urge ministers

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Social care leaders hailed in New Year Honours

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders

Social care funding rise ‘should deliver tangible service improvements’, says government

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Adults, Social work leaders

‘Failed’ Care Act 2014 must be properly implemented in shift to ‘enabling’ adults’ services, say peers

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Adults, Social work leaders

Hunt announces two-year care cap delay to help councils deliver 200,000 extra care packages

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Adults, Social work leaders

NHS to get most of £500m winter adult social care funding

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Adults, Social work leaders

Almost all councils lack funding to meet adult care costs this winter, warn directors

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