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• ‘Worrying’ number of children wrongly placed in supported accommodation, says Ofsted chief

  26-08-2024 22:21
  
  A “worrying” number of looked-after children and care leavers have been wrongly placed in supported accommodation, Ofsted’s social care chief has warned.
  Yvette Stanley said that inspectors had encountered young people who were “clearly in need of a higher level of care than supported accommodation is equipped to provide” in visits to the settings.
  In a blog post published last week, the regulator’s national director for social care added that, in some cases,
  
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• Love, warmth and hard work: the heart of the UK care system – photo essay

  26-08-2024 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The photographer Halena Hucker has spent the last year interviewing care workers and photographing behind the scenes of the care sector in a project titled In Love and Care. She documents the multifaceted nature of care work and highlights humanity amid the care system’s economic and political uncertainties, emphasising how the dedication of carers sustains the systemIn Love and Care came from a personal place in my heart. Many of my family members work in care, with aunties and cousins wo
  
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• More than 14,000 NHS beds in use by patients ready to be discharged

  26-08-2024 01:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Care homes and homecare providers wait weeks for people to be brought from hospital, report revealsMore than 14,000 NHS hospital beds are being occupied every day by patients who are well enough to be discharged, figures show, as experts urged ministers tackle the crisis.The data emerged as a damning report revealed that almost a fifth of care providers were waiting weeks for people to be transferred into their care. Continue reading...
  
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