Adult Social Care ‘Approaching Tipping Point’, Warns Quality Regulator
Most health and adult social care services in England are providing people with safe, high quality and compassionate care – but with pressures rising on…
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Social Care
Care Leader Calls For Referendum On Social Care
A leading advocate has suggested a referendum on social care in a bid to provoke more action on the crisis facing the sector. Speaking at…
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Disability Group Analyses Post-Brexit Priorities In New Social Care Report
A new report launched next Thursday on 22 September 2016 examines the key issues for third-sector disability providers after Brexit. The report, Post-Brexit: Priorities and…
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Older People Are Paying The Price For Cuts To Social Care
The care and support older people receive increasingly depends on where they live and how much money they have rather than their needs, according to…
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Time For An ‘Ownership Revolution’ In Social Care
The Co-operative Party has, this week caleds for an ownership revolution in the social care sector, with carers, those who receive care, and their families…
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New Coalition Of Health And Social Care Experts On Mission
A coalition of 29 health and social care organisations has been created to ensure sustainable workforce supply and thereby standards of care are maintained as…
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New Coalition Of Health And Social Care Experts On Mission To Guarantee Status Of EU Staff
A coalition of 29 health and social care organisations has been created to ensure sustainable workforce supply and thereby standards of care are maintained as…
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Four-In-Five Young Low-Paid Social Care Workers Get Pay Rise To National Living Wage
NLW implementation in care encouraging so far, but risks faltering if public funding not increased Four in five young social care workers previously paid below…
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The Guardian’s Award-Winning Public Services Editor, David Brindle, Will Speak At The NACC Training & Development Forum 2016
The National Association of Care Catering (NACC) has announced that David Brindle, public services editor for The Guardian is to speak at the NACC Training…
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Nursing Home Leaders Back Adult Social Care Directors’ Call On Government To Plug £930 Million Funding Shortfall
New Prime Minister Theresa May’s government needs urgently to get to grips with the unprecedented crisis enveloping social care, the Registered Nursing Home Association (RNHA)…
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Council Tax Precept Fails To Close Adult Social Care Funding Gap
Charging residents extra council tax to pay for social care has failed to raise enough money to cover the cost of the new National Living…
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Innovate To Alleviate: Addressing The Skills Shortage In Social Care
Innovate to Alleviate: Exploring How the Role of an Enhanced Care Worker Could Address Skills Shortages in the Social Care Sector A new report from…
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Innovative Nursing Assistants Programme: Report Published
Supporting senior care workers to become nursing assistants can tackle the shortage of nurses in care homes, improve the quality of care for residents, and…
Read more...Social Care Organisations Invited To Benchmark Pay And Reward In New Study
A new benchmarking study that will reveal the latest pay and reward policies for frontline social care staff is being launched today by Agenda Consulting…
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Concerns That Business Rate Legislation May Lead to Greater Social Care Inequalities
Legislation announced in the Queens Speech could lead to greater inequalities in the quality and amount of social care people receive, warn the Care and…
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