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Welcome to our blog page!

Here you will find topics that we realise are relevant and relatable to our industry, and the views that we continue to maintain from our own experiences and observations.

Happy reading ...

Nov 8, 2022
1 min

A SHRINKING WORKFORCE ...

Something we perhaps already knew. Skills for Care’s annual report has been published today: vacancy rates in adult social care have...

Nov 8, 2022
1 min

DELAYS IN HOSPITAL DISCHARGE.

In the last week of August, 138,000 patients were still in hospital more than one week after they had met the criteria for discharge. So...

Nov 8, 2022
1 min

FAIR COST OF CARE

£21 isn’t enough! So the first indications of the Fair Cost of Care results are beginning to come through. Leicestershire have just...

Nov 8, 2022
1 min

MORE NONSENSE FROM COMMISSIONERS.

Suffolk County Council pays a miserly £19.84 per hour. This is a pro rata rate, so half an hour will merit £9.92, and 20 minutes £6.61....

Nov 8, 2022
1 min

EXTRA FUNDING?

While extra funding from the new health and social care levy announced by the government in September 2021 will be welcome, substantial...

Nov 8, 2022
1 min

WHERE HAVE ALL THE OVER 50's GONE?

The UK has seen one million people, mostly in their 50s, leave work since the start of the Covid-19 outbreak. Some of our best staff have...

Nov 8, 2022
1 min

UNMET NEEDS ...

We are now seeing some real misery caused by the under-funding of the social care system. Firstly, people’s care needs are unmet or...

Nov 8, 2022
1 min

WHERE WILL NEW MONEY GO?

The Government has increased NI contributions as we discussed last week, and with changes to dividend taxation will raise £36 billion...

Nov 8, 2022
1 min

HOW ARE WE REACTING TO COVID-19?

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