Social Care – Page 26 – Care Appointments

Engage: What is ethical leadership and how can we apply it in social care

By Jason Denny, Registered Manager, Old Hastings House27th September 2022Engage

As Skills for Care focuses on ‘Leadership at all levels’ this month, they reached out to registered manager Jason Denny to find out more about what it means to be

Labour pledges to build National Care Service enforcing high standards in homes

By The Press Association26th September 2022News England

Labour has pledged to recruit care workers by guaranteeing fair pay, workers’ rights and appropriate training under a National Care Service as it claimed “too many private equity firms are

Councils call on Prime Minister to honour pledge to put £13bn into social care

By Jemma Crew, Reporter23rd September 2022News England

Councils are calling on the Prime Minister to honour her promise to put billions into social care as Government plans to scrap the newly introduced National Insurance levy were confirmed.

Care sector calls for much bolder plan suggesting £500m discharge fund ‘won’t touch the sides’

By Jemma Crew, Reporter22nd September 2022News England

Groups have dubbed a new £500 million winter discharge fund as insufficient and said the Government must deliver a “much bigger and bolder plan” for social care. Charities, social care

No-one will be forced to sell their home to pay for social care – Liz Truss

By Sam Blewett and Jemma Crew, Reporters21st September 2022News England

Liz Truss has vowed that no-one will be forced to sell their homes to pay for social care. The Prime Minister’s commitment goes further than under Boris Johnson’s social care

More shelter beds and supported homes pledged in strategy to end rough sleeping

By Jemma Crew, Reporter3rd September 2022News England

Thousands of beds in shelters and new supported living accommodation in England will be provided as part of a landmark strategy to help the Government meet its manifesto pledge to

Next PM must be ‘more intelligent about social care’ amid ‘astonishing’ levels of unmet need

By Jemma Crew, Reporter2nd September 2022News England

The new prime minister must “turn the page and take a more intelligent approach to social care” amid an “astonishing” level of need which is not being met, groups have

Dozens of charities dealing with ‘tsunami of need’ call for urgent Government support for vulnerable

By Jonathan Bunn, Reporter1st September 2022News England

Dozens of charities on the front line dealing with a “tsunami of need” caused by the cost-of-living crisis have called on the Government to provide urgent financial support to vulnerable

Hospital patient faced nine-month social care wait before discharge, FOI request finds

By Ella Pickover, Reporter31st August 2022News England

Hospital patients who are medically fit to be sent home have been forced to wait at hospital for months on end while provisions are made to get them safely home

Small decrease reported in latest Scotland’s social care workforce figures

By Iain MacDonald, Reporter30th August 2022News Scotland

The size of Scotland’s social work, social care and early years workforce dropped slightly last year to 208,360 people, a drop of 0.6% on 2020, a new report shows. The