Month: August 2018

Care Talk – Understanding Financial Abuse Within the Safeguarding Sphere

A highly common safeguarding challenge within a care home is financial abuse. It has been a subject of news reports this year and remains a critical one within the media, Government and CQC. As a result, it is essential that care workers are alert to the types of financial abuse within a care home, so …

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Council confirms ‘radical cuts’ to adults and children’s social care

Both children’s and adults’ social services will be affected by Northamptonshire County Council’s decision to approve “radical cuts” to authority spending. Spending on learning difficulties in adults’ services will be decreased and there will be more scrutiny with the number of referrals and numbers within the children’s care systems. Despite this, safeguarding vulnerable children and …

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Ridout Report August 2018 – Not Registering the Right Support

The House of Commons recently debated the future of the Transforming Care programme[1]. Concerns were raised that the Programme was unlikely to realise the ambitions set out in the Building the Right Support strategy before it ends in 2019. These ambitions are to develop more community services for people with learning disabilities and/or autism, who …

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Ridout Report August 2018 – Not Registering the Right Support

The House of Commons recently debated the future of the Transforming Care programme[1]. Concerns were raised that the Programme was unlikely to realise the ambitions set out in the Building the Right Support strategy before it ends in 2019. These ambitions are to develop more community services for people with learning disabilities and/or autism, who …

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Ofsted monitoring visit causes council to set up arms-length children services company

In the wake of an Ofsted monitoring visit, Worcestershire council will hand over the running of its children’s services. The Department for Education (DfE) has ordered the council to set up the company, after the Ofsted visit resulted in more concerns of the council. Despite Ofsted finding areas of improvement in their visit, inspectors found …

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Department of Health warns of care worker shortage after Brexit

The Department of Health has released a report stating there could be 28,000 fewer workers in the care sector in England in five years after leaving the European Union if employers were no longer able to recruit European Economic Area (EEA) staff. With the expected onset of rising life expectancy and increases in the number …

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