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Next phase of domestic recruitment campaign ‘Made with Care’ launches today to encourage people with the right qualities to begin a career in adult social care.
Statistics from Ofsted including data for children’s homes and other social care providers, fostering, inspections of local authority children’s services, and serious incident notifications from local authority children’s services.
Table showing local authority allocations of Social Care Grant in 2021 to 2022.
4D mapping technology that detects falls using sensors and alerts carers is piloted in care homes.
Find out about changes to care and support from your local council.
Information on the Quality Matters initiative, which is aimed at improving the quality of adult social care.
Funding for over 460 new children’s social worker apprenticeship opportunities across the country.
Advice for those working in adult social care on managing your mental health and how employers can take care of the wellbeing of their staff.
Sets out the government’s approach to intervention in adult social care in England.
Find out about residential and nursing care homes, paying for care homes and how to choose a care home.
A report looking at how the government can lock in the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic to build a more robust, sustainable and joined-up system of social care.
Table showing local authority allocations of Social Care Grant in 2023 to 2024.
Table showing local authority allocations of Social Care Grant in 2022 to 2023.
How the government is supporting the adult social care sector this winter.
Our plan to transform children's social care.
Information on the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC)’s expression of interest for a social care expert advisory group.
This document sets out the government’s roadmap for transforming adult social care data in England.
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