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Community Care helps social workers stay up-to-date with the latest and most significant developments in practice, law and policy to help them to change lives for the better and flourish in their careers. We also support social work employers and leaders to recruit and retain high-quality practitioners and develop their staff to the best of […]

6 天之前 · Social workers could form part of neighbourhood-based multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) providing support for people with complex health and social care needs. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) called on NHS and local authority leaders to establish the teams in guidance on their use of ...

2025年1月3日 · The government will set up an independent commission to recommend long-term reform to adult social care, it announced today. The body, which will be led by former senior civil servant Baroness (Louise) Casey, will examine the key issues facing the sector today before recommending changes designed to help achieve the government’s ambition of creating a ‘national care service’ and based on ...

1 天前 · As social workers, playing a leading role in the lives of care-experienced young people, you know more than anyone the immense pressure the system is under. The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, introduced in December, clearly intends to improve children’s social care, through measures ...

2025年1月9日 · The new commission on social care reform should deliver final proposals by the end of this year, not by 2028, as planned, according to the author of the last major review of the sector. Andrew Dilnot told MPs that a host of challenges facing people who need care, families, care staff, councils ...

1 天前 · How means-testing thresholds in England compare. The means-test limits in England are less generous than those for Scotland and Wales. In Scotland, personal care is free, and the means-test thresholds for residential accommodation, which operate similarly to the limits in England, have risen in line with inflation in recent years.

1 天前 · Workforce Insights. How collaboration with occupational therapists can improve social work practice ; Podcast: helping older adults avoid unnecessary hospital visits

2025年1月14日 · Council fee rises for social care providers have lagged behind increases in the national living wage (NLW) for each of the past three years, providers have reported. The research, carried out before the government’s autumn 2024 Budget added an estimated £2.8bn to the costs of adult social care in ...

2024年4月3日 · Today, Community Care celebrates 50 years reporting on and supporting the social work profession. We published our first edition on 3rd April 1974, a few years after the creation of a unified social work profession in the UK, with the advent of social work and social services departments, a single qualification and generic social work roles.