{"id":2830,"date":"2016-11-11T12:56:38","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T12:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2830"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:35","slug":"is-social-care-in-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2016\/11\/11\/is-social-care-in-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Is social care in crisis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PSA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commissiononcare.org\/2016\/11\/01\/commission-report-launched\/\">Commission on Care Report Towards a New Deal for Care and Carers<\/a> was launched last week.\u00a0 It was based on a year-long inquiry into the state of care for older people in England undertaken by academics and policy experts from the Universities of Warwick and Liverpool, the Women\u2019s Budget Group and the Fawcett Society.\u00a0 It considered issues relating to funding, policy and delivery. Shortcomings were highlighterd in the current system, including the burden carried by many women.<\/p>\n<p>On this theme, \u00a0problems were also revealed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lgo.org.uk\/information-centre\/news\/2016\/nov\/ombudsman-s-annual-review-highlights-concerns-about-quality-of-homecare\">Local Government Ombudsman\u00a0 Review of Adult Social Care Complaints 2015\/16<\/a> this week<\/p>\n<p>Further information on this topic can be found on<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the UK <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/topics\/social-care\">government policy pages<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cqc.org.uk\/\">Care Quality Commission<\/a> which regulates services and has performance and inspection reports.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kingsfund.org.uk\/topics\/social-care\">Kings Fund social care research<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk\/our-work\/social-care\">Nuffield Trust<\/a> reports<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.york.ac.uk\/che\/research\/health-social-care\/\">Centre for Health Economics University of York<\/a> working papers and reports<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Or look for more references to articles using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk\/\">SCIE Social Care Online,<\/a> the great free searchable database of grey literature and articles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PSA Commission on Care Report Towards a New Deal for Care and Carers was launched last week.\u00a0 It was based on a year-long inquiry into the state of care for older people in England undertaken by academics and policy experts from the Universities of Warwick and Liverpool, the Women\u2019s Budget Group and the Fawcett Society.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[371,93],"class_list":["post-2830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sociology","tag-social-care","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2831,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions\/2831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}