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Oct 15, 2024
Being a Dementia Friend
Being a Dementia Friend means understanding the five key messages that everyone should know about dementia and which will help tackle the...
Oct 14, 2024
Complaints About Social Care
The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman look at individual complaints about councils, adult social care providers, including care...
Oct 7, 2024
No Resource to implement changes
Councils would not have been able to implement the care reforms even if the new Government had not decided to scrap them. Independent...
Oct 3, 2024
No plan to address adult social care
Think-tank, the King’s Fund has said the decision to abolish care funding reforms was regrettable and meant that the government had “no...
Oct 2, 2024
Adult Care Need Surges
More working age adults in Bristol are now in need of social care and support than elderly people, new figures have revealed. Bristol...
Oct 1, 2024
Why is tariff income so high?
Tariff income is the amount a person is required to contribute towards their care costs when they are supported by their local authority...
Sep 26, 2024
Fair pay agreement?
In its manifesto, Labour promised to negotiate a fair pay agreement for adult social care in order to boost the workforce’s pay, terms...
Sep 25, 2024
Social Worker View
A Community Care poll asked 2,800 social workers whether they’d be willing to pay more tax to increase public spending on services,...
Sep 24, 2024
Time to Change Course
Sector leaders have urged the government to “change course on social care” after it cancelled the cap on care costs and a planned...
Sep 23, 2024
Welsh Backlog
There are 1,594 people in Welsh hospitals who are fit to leave but remain there because of care or assessment delays, figures show. ...
Sep 17, 2024
What is tariff income?
Tariff income is the contribution an individual is required to make towards the cost of their care when they have savings between the...
Sep 16, 2024
Decision ‘pushes care burden onto individuals’
Charities also voiced disappointment about the impact on older people and their families of the government’s decision to abandon care...
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