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• Conservative manifesto pledge to implement cap on care costs unfunded, warns think-tank

  11-06-2024 23:47
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.A Conservative manifesto pledge to implement a cap on adult social care costs and associated charging reforms is unfunded, a think-tank has warned.
  The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said the plan to implement the changes in October 2025 would require cuts elsewhere, because the funding originally allocated to the scheme had been diverted and the party did not allocate any funding to the
  
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• Conservative manifesto pledge to implement cap on care costs is unfunded, warns think-tank

  11-06-2024 23:47
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.A Conservative manifesto pledge to implement a cap on adult social care costs and associated charging reforms is unfunded, a think-tank has warned.
  The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said the plan to implement the changes in October 2025 would require cuts elsewhere, because the funding originally allocated to the scheme had been diverted and the party did not allocate any funding to the
  
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• Social workers divided on striking over pay offer

  11-06-2024 20:31
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Social work opinion is divided on whether to strike over this year’s local government pay offer for 2024-25, a Community Care poll has found.
  While a slight majority of practitioners would take action in pursuit of a better deal, over a third were sceptical that this would work.
  Last month, employers announced a “full and final” pay offer for council staff in England, Wales
  
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• How parents with learning disabilities lack support before, during and after care proceedings

  11-06-2024 14:53
  
  By Mary Baginsky
  Just a quarter of people with learning disabilities (26%) are on their GP surgery’s learning disability register, according to research published this year by the Nuffield Trust.
  This indicates the majority are not known to services, including social care. Similarly, we know many parents with a learning disability manage without calling on services.
  In research published earlier this year, Professor Rick Hood and colleagues found that a reference to a ‘parental learn
  
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• Choose Social Work: free resource pack to inspire future social workers

  11-06-2024 09:05
  
  In June 2023, Community Care launched our Choose Social Work campaign. We wanted to show the reality of social work: of dedicated, hard-working people, working alongside children, families and adults, supporting them to improve their lives.
  Over the last year, we have published brilliant interviews with people like Jenny Molloy and Fatima Whitbread, spent a day with children’s social workers in a London borough, and shared social workers’ best advice for those contemplating joining t
  
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• Social care is a timebomb beneath Britain – why does neither main party have a plan to tackle it? | Gaby Hinsliff

  11-06-2024 07:00
  
  Plans to fund adult care have been derided as a ‘dementia tax’ or a ‘death tax’. The carers I visited showed me that what they need is both urgent and simpleIn a church hall in suburban Croydon, south London, a familiar Beatles medley plays. The crowd sways and sings along, and an 80-year-old woman reaches out to hold her husband’s hand.Paul has vascular dementia and can no longer speak, but he smiles occasionally as if in recognition. His wife, Jill, says they were
  
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