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Latest updates on the Social Care Discussion
Our blogs are designed to communicate updated discussions on adult social care in the UK, with relevant articles also shared below.
Hospital Discharge, Care Navigation and Vulnerability In Practice
Adult Social Care Increasing pressure continues to build around hospital discharge pathways and how quickly families are expected to make decisions regarding ongoing care arrangements. Concerns remain around whether assessments completed during periods of instability...
Care Access Delays, Family Pressure & Strengthening Consumer Duty
Adult Social Care Delays in accessing assessments and care packages continue to be reported across local authorities, with increasing demand placing pressure on already stretched systems. This reinforces ongoing concerns around timeliness, availability and the...
Funding Pressures, Carer Strain & Consumer Duty Scrutiny
Adult Social Care Local authorities continue to face increasing pressure around funding allocations and the sustainability of care provision. Recent sector analysis highlights the growing gap between assessed needs and available budgets, raising ongoing questions...
Care Decisions Under Pressure: The Sandwich Generation, Overseas Families and the Support They Desperately Need
For many families, the moment a parent starts needing care doesn’t arrive gently. It tends to land suddenly – after a fall, a hospital admission, a worrying phone call, or a quiet sense that ‘things aren’t right anymore’. For the so‑called “sandwich generation” and...
Sustainable fees, Sandwich generation, Implementation of FCA’s target framework for vulnerability
Adult Social Care Councils have been urged to set sustainable fee rates to stabilise the adult social care workforce and prepare for upcoming employment reforms, including fair pay agreements. This follows new Department of Health and Social Care guidance aimed at...
Silence on social care from the Autumn Statement, Cost of care hugely underestimated by over 45’s, Firms urged to review systems for customer vulnerability management
Adult Social Care Chancellor’s “silence on social care speaks volumes about Government’s priorities”, warns former Deputy Prime Minister Social care’s total omission from Rachel Reeves’ Autumn Budget “spoke volumes about the Government’s priorities”, former Deputy...
New permanent director general for adult social care, two-thirds of retirees unprepared for managing finances in later life, Vulnerability passport
Adult Social Care Sally Warren becomes permanent director general for adult social care The Department of Health and Social Care has announced that Sally Warren will be the permanent director general for adult social care....
Fair Pay Agreement, Elderly care planning of tomorrow, firms must evidence outcomes in next step of Consumer Duty
Adult Social Care Government invests £500 million into first ever Fair Pay Agreement in major milestone for care worker pay. The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Wes Streeting announces a major £500m investment in Fair Pay Agreement for adult care workers...
Baroness Casey keen to ‘crack on’ with social care improvements, Families face unfair ‘luck of the draw’ over NHS continuing healthcare, four in five brokers encounter vulnerable clients
Adult Social Care Baroness Casey ‘keen to crack on’ after first cross-party social care talks The leader of a commission into the future of social care in England is keen to “crack on” with improvements in the sector, one of those who attended the first cross-party...