Home care providers have warned the adult care system has begun to collapse as figures show more than 900 adult social care workers a day quit their job last year. The charity, Skills for Care, released data to the BBC that revealed in 2015-16 about 338,520 adult care social workers left their roles, equal to …
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Peter Wyman, CQC chairman has stated at an event last week that unannounced inspections of providers are set to increase in frequency. He further stated that inspections which are announced involve quite a large amount of costly planning on the part of the provider and this in turn provides a picture of provider which is …
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Fees that care home and domiciliary care providers must pay to CQC rose in April. On 1 April care home providers with 26-30 residents saw their registration charges rise by £163 from £4,212 to £4,375. Single-location community social care providers also saw a £823 rise in their fees to £2,192 a year. CQC is funded …
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Recent findings from a four-month long enquiry into adult social care were published last week, in a report by the House of Commons Communities and Local Government (CLG) Select Committee. The findings showed nearly half of care staff (48 per cent) leave their jobs within a year of starting, with the social care sector replacing …
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From today coroners are no longer required to conduct a formal inquest for every person who dies while under a Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) authorisation following an amendment to the law. In November 2016 ministers agreed to the amendment to the Policing and Crime Bill which removed the statutory duty of coroners to hold …
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Just a little over a year ago on 1 February 2016 the sentencing guidelines for Health and Safety Offences were introduced. They are of wide reaching impact for the health and social care sector in particular in relation to breaches, alleged or actual, of health and safety law. The guidelines were brought in to provide …
In a report published today by the Communities and Local Government Committee it has been confirmed that major funding pressures afflict the sector. Private residents in care homes pay almost 50% more for their care than their state funded neighbours in the same location receiving the same level of care. Some key points from the …
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