Social Care – Page 24 – Care Appointments

Council to refund 11 years of care home fees family should never have been charged

By Iain MacDonald, Reporter20th October 2022News England

Birmingham City Council will repay a city family more than 11 years of care home fees after the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman found the family should never have

Council agrees to review processes after visually impaired woman was left without social care

By Iain MacDonald, Reporter20th October 2022News England

Leicestershire County Council has agreed to improve how it prepares social care and support plans after a severely visually impaired woman was left without the day-to-day support she needed for

Little evidence that social prescribing link workers easing burden on GP services, study concludes

By Ella Pickover, Reporter18th October 2022News England

There is little evidence that so-called “social prescribing link workers” improve social support or ease the burden on overstretched GP services, a new review has concluded. The new analysis, published

‘Absolutely essential’ Liz Truss follows through on promised social care reforms – Andrew Dilnot

By Jemma Crew, Reporter13th October 2022News England

The Prime Minister has been warned not to row back on key social care reforms as this would be to “abandon some of the most vulnerable people in our society”.

Cost of providing council social care ‘an increasingly common theme’ in complaints to ombudsman

By Jemma Crew, Reporter12th October 2022News England

More complaints are being made about councils failing to provide social care – or limiting the care provided – and using cost as a justification, an ombudsman has said. The

NHS England looking at plans to speed up discharge of medically fit patients

By Jane Kirby, Reporter12th October 2022News England

NHS England is looking at new plans to speed up the discharge of people stuck in hospital beds who are medically fit to leave. Hospitals are under increasing pressure due

Fifth of residential care workers already in poverty before cost-of-living crisis escalates

By Jemma Crew, Reporter11th October 2022News England

One in five residential care workers in the UK were living in poverty before the cost-of-living crisis, new analysis suggests. Care home and assisted living staff are far more likely

More than quarter of social care staff over 55 may retire in decade, new report warns

By Jemma Crew, Reporter11th October 2022News England

More than a quarter of England’s adult social care workforce is over 55 and may retire in the next decade, a report warns. At almost 11%, care worker vacancy rates

Diminishing support for carers shows ‘widening gulf’ between Government rhetoric and reality

By Jemma Crew, Reporter10th October 2022News England

Fewer unpaid carers are receiving council support or respite breaks, while official spending is falling, according to analysis revealing a “widening gulf” between Government rhetoric and reality. Millions of people

Waspi women criticise ‘bizarre and unjustified’ ruling out of compensation

Sara Sharif’s father and stepmother branded ‘executioners’ as pair are jailed for life

Letby legal team seeks fresh bid to challenge convictions of child serial killer