Topics
The six topics we track across adult social care. Each links to every article in the topic.
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Workforce
Pay, recruitment and keeping staff in adult social care: the Fair Pay Agreement, overseas recruitment and sponsorship, vacancy and turnover figures, training, and the staff who also care for someone at home. What changes for the people who staff services, and for the people who pay them.
0 articles in this topic
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Fees and funding
What councils pay for care and where the money comes from: fee rates and annual uplifts, the real cost of care, whether services can be sustained at the rates on offer, and government funding for adult social care.
0 articles in this topic
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Commissioning and markets
How care is bought and who provides it: frameworks and approved lists, tenders and procurement, spare capacity, providers entering and leaving the market, takeovers, and placements made outside a person’s home area.
1 article in this topic
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Regulation and quality
Inspection, ratings and enforcement across the UK: the Care Quality Commission in England, Care Inspectorate Wales, the Care Inspectorate in Scotland and RQIA in Northern Ireland, and what councils check beyond the regulator.
0 articles in this topic
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Policy and reform
What government is changing in adult social care, and what it means for you: new laws and policy, the Casey Commission, local government reorganisation, dementia policy, and the questions each one leaves open.
3 articles in this topic
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Digital and AI
Technology in care services: AI in care, digital care records, the switch from analogue to digital phone lines, telecare, and what regulators expect when services adopt new tools.
0 articles in this topic