The latest ADASS Spring Survey is out and it’s clear adult social care is under real pressure.
Budgets are tight. Demand is rising. Unpaid carers are stretched.
But it also identified opportunity, especially around Technology Enabled Care (TEC).
🔹 89% of Directors say more funding for preventative tech would make the biggest difference
🔹 Confidence in emerging tech is still low
🔹 Investment in tech is down compared to last year
With the right backing, councils can lead the shift from hospital to community, treatment to prevention, and analogue to digital.
📖 Read more here: https://t.co/bx6YIt22nz
@BBCPM@EvanHD@BBCRadio4@BBCSounds So many layers to this issue, not just having a degree or not. For example, one of your interviewees switched from a ‘feminised’ job in the NHS to a male dominated job in manufacturing and now earns much more and feels less stressed…
The Committee has drawn on evidence submitted by @CentreForCare and @MPetrillo25 in their report to warn the Government it will not achieve its ambitions to support more people into work without a functioning social care system.
The social care system in England is broken.
We're calling on Government to measure the cost of inaction on reforming the current system and see the sector's wider potential.
Read the report: https://t.co/u9PfSl33kO
With 8.5 million adults lacking the most basic digital skills, how can we create digital services that are truly inclusive? Our new long read, supported by @HealthFdn, argues that it's essential to listen to the voices of people & communities. Read more 👉 https://t.co/ra88nvK032
'For the Labour Government, developing a National Care Service in England should be built on a clear rationale demonstrating how the changes lead to better outcomes.'
read the latest commentary by Emily Burn and @DrCNeedham here:
https://t.co/PHecdvnzQr
"Social care reform is urgent. We need funding to tide over the current system, a proper public and political debate, and tangible action—but in a much tighter timeframe than currently suggested."
@JonGlasby and colleagues discuss reforming social care
https://t.co/TGaYfwJq48
A motion was passed at the @LibDems party conference on ‘A Fair Deal for Family Carers’. We’re delighted to see this become party policy @daisycoopermp
https://t.co/HY1i0gixRU
@wendychambLD
Erika Kispeter from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine presenting on the topic of professionalization of the long-term care workforce in the UK.
#ilpn2024#longtermcare
While the focus of the Darzi report is on the NHS it does have a few, largely helpful, lines on #socialcare which, it says ‘has not been valued or resourced sufficiently, which has both a profound human cost and economic consequences.’ Very short thread. https://t.co/FPuicscD3S
Hello #ILPN2024!
So happy to be in Bilbao and see that the @ilpnetwork conference continues to bring together so many excellent researchers on #LongTermCare from all over the world, and such lovely people too! Thanks for hosting us @bizkaia@BizkaiaSocial
My @guardian story: Ministers agree to publish long-buried internal research into the emotional and financial impact on unpaid carers of care allowance fines and prosecutions https://t.co/2fLgUL8c0D
Join us in Sheffield this June for the QAR-Net Care: inaugural workshop!
🚨The call for papers is open until 3rd April!
Please share with your networks and get your abstracts in!
https://t.co/RmRnd88bZI