‘Make adult social care a priority’
The next government has been urged to make social care a priority after years of reform being “consistently dodged or delayed”, a think-tank has said.
The next government has been urged to make social care a priority after years of reform being “consistently dodged or delayed”, a think-tank has said.
The Government is being urged to extend the Household Support Fund (HSF) to help protect vulnerable households across the UK.
The Government has announced a new ‘care workforce pathway’, providing the first national career structure for adult social care staff.
For a number of councils, the taking down this month of office Christmas decorations may well be swiftly followed by the putting up of flipcharts, timelines and checklists on office walls.
New social care assessments are time and energy-intensive and have created additional workload for councils, which needs to be funded, the LGA has said.
Four of the five local authorities helping pilot new adult social care assessments have been given ‘good’ indicative ratings by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Around 390,000 adult social care staff left their jobs last year – with about a third of them leaving the sector altogether, according to the strategic workforce development and planning body in England.
Plans to introduce ‘single word’ inspection ratings for adult social care services should be dropped, as they set local councils up “to fail”.
The Government has set out a two-year plan for reform of the adult social care system in ‘Next steps to put people at the heart of care’.
A major reset is needed to prioritise prevention and early intervention.