Consultation on Funding for Supported Housing: Feedback being considered.
In November 2016, the Government announced a consultation on its ‘Funding for Supported Housing’ proposals, linked to its ‘evidence review of supported accommodation’ launched late 2015. The departments involved were i) the Department for Communities and Local Government and ii) the Department for Work and Pensions, and the consultation was described as covering Welfare Reform […]
More on Interim Report on Named Social Worker pilot scheme…
(Please regard this news post as an addendum to the post on the same issue from a few days ago. It contains more detail – and to be honest the previous post was issued in a hurry partly to test the automatic linkage of Rescare’s website, Facebook and Twitter – which seems to be working!) […]
An Important Report on Welfare Cases in the Court of Protection
Having been trailed by amongst others one of its co-authors, Lucy Series (author of the excellent blog on the law and learning disability, The Small Places ) and Alex Ruck Keene (of 39 Essex Street Chambers ,and overall a Court of Protection ‘guru’), this week has seen the publication of a highly significant research report […]
The 6% sticking point. MPs debate learning disabilities and employment levels.
What steps the Government are taking to ensure that people with learning difficulties are supported into work? “Governments of all persuasions have tried and failed to shift the employability rate of those with learning disabilities from 6%. That rate is an absolute waste of the huge amounts of talent and enthusiasm that are out there.” […]
Virgin Care wins £700m contract to run 200 NHS and social care services
Sir Richard Branson’s health firm, Virgin Care, has won a £700m contract to deliver 200 types of NHS and social care services to more than 200,000 people in Bath and north-east Somerset. This represents a landmark, especially in the delivery of social care, and provoked angry and worried responses about the ‘privatisation’ of social care.
DoH publishes Interim Report on Named Social Worker Pilot Scheme
We have been alerted today by press releases from both the Department of Health and SCIE that the DoH has published an interim report ‘Reflect and Refine’ on the Named Social Worker pilot scheme. This is how the DoH describes the scheme: The Department of Health commissioned the Innovation Unit in partnership with the SCIE to […]
A considered and serious paper about what’s gone wrong in adult social care…
Just published by the Centre for Welfare Reform (CWR): a paper by Belinda Schwehr entitled ‘‘Legal Literacy in Adult Social Care”. Belinda introduces it as ‘a considered and serious paper about what’s gone wrong in adult social care’. The CWR describes it as ‘provocative’. It is hard not to be come angry and depressed at […]
Centre for Social Justice Report on Housing Provision for Adults with Learning Disabilities
The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) was established as an independent think-tank in 2004. It was founded by the Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP (‘IDS’) in reaction to his investigation of poverty and social deprivation. CSJ is thus concerned particularly with social breakdown, its causes, and its prevention and alleviation. Whilst described by some […]
Parliamentary Committee launches Inquiry into funding and quality of Adult Social Care
On 9th June the Communities and Local Government (CLG) Committee announced the launch of an inquiry into the financial sustainability of local authority adult social care and the quality of care provided. This inquiry will, in essence examine whether local authorities have enough money to meet their statutory duties under the Care Act. It is […]
All Party Parliamentary Group for Disability seeks responses to inquiry into ‘the disability employment gap’
We have been notified via emails and postings from Disability Rights UK and other charity groups that the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Disability is inviting written submissions, addressing some key questions and themes to inform its inquiry “How the Government can fulfil its pledge to halve the disability employment gap”. The deadline for […]