Ending the Social Care Crisis: A New Road to Reform
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Richard Humphries • Ending the Social Care Crisis: A New Road to Reform
NatCen Social Research’s British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey is widely regarded as the gold standard for surveys of public views about a variety of social topics including attitudes towards health and social care.
Richard Humphries • Ending the Social Care Crisis: A New Road to Reform
many struggling to find their way around a complex system (Henwood et al, 2020). It seems absurd that, instead of designing something easy for people to use, we have ended up with a system so complicated and bewildering that some places have created a new type of worker called a ‘care navigator’ to help people to use it. Getting into the system in
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work is underway to obtain better data and implement a new assurance framework to assess council performance (NAO, 2021).
Richard Humphries • Ending the Social Care Crisis: A New Road to Reform
services should be moulded to the needs of the individual instead of the other way round).
Richard Humphries • Ending the Social Care Crisis: A New Road to Reform
Recruiting and retaining enough care workers with the right skills and aptitude seems to be a continuing problem for most if not all countries.
Richard Humphries • Ending the Social Care Crisis: A New Road to Reform
Wanless review
Richard Humphries • Ending the Social Care Crisis: A New Road to Reform
The causes and effects span government siloes.
Richard Humphries • Ending the Social Care Crisis: A New Road to Reform
The new Act sought to recast the duties of councils away from policing eligibility towards promoting wellbeing as the basis of assessing people’s needs.