Care England Daily Press Round-up (16.03.26)
Casey’s review of adult social care offers hope
Readers respond to Polly Toynbee’s article praising Louise Casey’s speech on social care funding. Louise Casey may have the power of words behind her (The blistering speech that tells me Britain’s social care deadlock can finally be broken, 10 March), but what she’s uncovered is a truth that local authorities have been voicing for years: the national care service will fail unless ministers stabilise the local systems that underpin it.
Union campaigners meet with care minister in bid to save eight Derbyshire council care homes from closure
Union campaigners descended upon the Houses of Parliament to meet the Minister for Social Care Stephen Kinnock with concerns over the feared closure of eight Derbyshire County Council care homes.
Delegated healthcare activities and CQC compliance: where providers can get caught out
Recent commentary from the Care Quality Commission is a timely reminder that adult social care providers need clear local arrangements for delegated healthcare activities, particularly where services are registered for the regulated activity of personal care only and not for treatment of disease, disorder or injury.
Larger capacity care homes on rise amid changing needs and cost hikes
Carehome.co.uk report reveals strongest growth in purpose-built homes with over 60 beds last year, while self-funded fees leapt by 10 per cent amid rising cost pressures for providers. Larger, purpose-built care homes for older people were the largest growing type of provision last year, with 60-79 bed facilities up by 3.6 per cent, according to a report published today.
Government and Stakeholder Updates
Louise Casey’s social care speech puts down a marker – and underlines tough choices ahead
Last week, in her first speech as Chair of the government’s Independent Commission on Adult Social Care, Louise Casey gave a frank assessment of the problems facing our care and support system. Casey’s willingness to speak plainly about the scale of the challenge was welcome, as was her call for ‘a moment of reckoning’ in the sector.