Phil Holmes
@philholmes.bsky.social
DASS in Doncaster. Public services especially local government, adult social care, culture & heritage, domestic abuse, homelessness.
The odd blog at https://publicserviceblogcasting.wordpress.com/
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Phil Holmes
@philholmes.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Social care 'impasse' at top of government - so what next, asks Laura Kuenssberg
Multiple sources say the Treasury is deeply nervous about the cost of fixing social care, and that the PM is yet to decide how to proceed.
www.bbc.co.uk
This all sounds wearingly familiar so here's a shortish thread (1/9) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Useful response to this piece from @theasrstein.bsky.social
Reflects common desire for govt to say something soon, to make it clear WHAT it wants neighbourhood health to achieve, what outcomes
More tricky is separating, even initially, the 2 threads - since govnt & others likely to want both/and
Reflects common desire for govt to say something soon, to make it clear WHAT it wants neighbourhood health to achieve, what outcomes
More tricky is separating, even initially, the 2 threads - since govnt & others likely to want both/and
January 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Useful response to this piece from @theasrstein.bsky.social
Reflects common desire for govt to say something soon, to make it clear WHAT it wants neighbourhood health to achieve, what outcomes
More tricky is separating, even initially, the 2 threads - since govnt & others likely to want both/and
Reflects common desire for govt to say something soon, to make it clear WHAT it wants neighbourhood health to achieve, what outcomes
More tricky is separating, even initially, the 2 threads - since govnt & others likely to want both/and
Do you want to be Doncaster's Strategic Lead for Coproduction and Inclusion? There aren't too many jobs like this one. If you've got the values, motivation and communication skills to be at the centre of proper adult social care reform then please get in touch. ce0351li.webitrent.com/ce0351li_web...
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January 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Do you want to be Doncaster's Strategic Lead for Coproduction and Inclusion? There aren't too many jobs like this one. If you've got the values, motivation and communication skills to be at the centre of proper adult social care reform then please get in touch. ce0351li.webitrent.com/ce0351li_web...
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An epic read for Monday: Ella's Human Rights Claim www.georgejulian.co.uk/2024/12/16/e...
I spoke with @ellychapple.bsky.social about Northumberland Council unlawfully issuing care proceedings and the impact on their family
Also #MotherBlame #LearningDisabilty #DeafBlind #HumanRights #JusticeforLB
I spoke with @ellychapple.bsky.social about Northumberland Council unlawfully issuing care proceedings and the impact on their family
Also #MotherBlame #LearningDisabilty #DeafBlind #HumanRights #JusticeforLB
December 16, 2024 at 8:39 AM
An epic read for Monday: Ella's Human Rights Claim www.georgejulian.co.uk/2024/12/16/e...
I spoke with @ellychapple.bsky.social about Northumberland Council unlawfully issuing care proceedings and the impact on their family
Also #MotherBlame #LearningDisabilty #DeafBlind #HumanRights #JusticeforLB
I spoke with @ellychapple.bsky.social about Northumberland Council unlawfully issuing care proceedings and the impact on their family
Also #MotherBlame #LearningDisabilty #DeafBlind #HumanRights #JusticeforLB
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‘Solving’ social problems depends on understanding their upstream source. Too often our immediate responses simply reinforce our helplessness. e.g. food banks undermine the ability of local growers and farmers to offer healthy food from local sources.
December 15, 2024 at 9:01 AM
‘Solving’ social problems depends on understanding their upstream source. Too often our immediate responses simply reinforce our helplessness. e.g. food banks undermine the ability of local growers and farmers to offer healthy food from local sources.
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While fair pay in #socialcare is clearly a good thing, we shouldn’t overstate the benefits to the NHS on hospital discharge. Most discharge delays aren’t due to lack of available social care, and lack of careworkers is only one factor even when they are. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Fair pay for social care staff will help fix crumbling NHS says Angela Rayner
The Deputy Labour Leader said she was "frustrated" by how the care system has been allowed to fragment under the Tories
www.mirror.co.uk
November 24, 2024 at 8:58 AM
While fair pay in #socialcare is clearly a good thing, we shouldn’t overstate the benefits to the NHS on hospital discharge. Most discharge delays aren’t due to lack of available social care, and lack of careworkers is only one factor even when they are. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Perfect. Thanks @neilmcrowther.bsky.social
The case for investing in adult social care reframed www.linkedin.com/posts/neil-c...
Neil Crowther on LinkedIn: The case for investing in adult social care reframed:
As a society we…
The case for investing in adult social care reframed:
As a society we care about one another, which is why in the past we've invested together in adult social…
www.linkedin.com
November 24, 2024 at 9:00 AM
Perfect. Thanks @neilmcrowther.bsky.social
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Chris Whitty reminds #bgsconf that the majority reach later life in relatively good health @gerisoc.bsky.social
November 21, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Chris Whitty reminds #bgsconf that the majority reach later life in relatively good health @gerisoc.bsky.social
Any council got a better Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care than @smizz.bsky.social? I'll wait
Yesterday was Carers Rights Day! But it should be Carers Rights Day everyday!
Here’s some posters I made with #carersrights on - feel free to share them widely & use them!
Here’s some posters I made with #carersrights on - feel free to share them widely & use them!
November 22, 2024 at 11:59 AM
Any council got a better Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care than @smizz.bsky.social? I'll wait
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The budget increased grant funding for councils by £1.3bn but new research by @nuffieldtrust.bsky.social finds that the rises in NLW and employer NICs could increase their adult social care costs by £2bn
www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/wi...
www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/wi...
Will the Autumn Budget push the social care sector beyond breaking point?
While the recent budget brought better news for hard-pressed public services, social care was not so lucky. With many organisations fearing that changes to the Employer National Insurance Contribution...
www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk
November 22, 2024 at 11:27 AM
The budget increased grant funding for councils by £1.3bn but new research by @nuffieldtrust.bsky.social finds that the rises in NLW and employer NICs could increase their adult social care costs by £2bn
www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/wi...
www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/wi...
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Employment and mental health (or any disability); a 🧵:
It’s really important for us all to recognise the difference in what’s portrayed and what’s reality when it comes to the economically inactive.
In our employment services @cellartrust.bsky.social we know that people generally want work.
1/6
It’s really important for us all to recognise the difference in what’s portrayed and what’s reality when it comes to the economically inactive.
In our employment services @cellartrust.bsky.social we know that people generally want work.
1/6
Dull-seeming but super important!
EMPLOYMENT figures for the U.K. may UNDERESTIMATE #employment by 1%, making them overly pessimistic.
This matters hugely with the #DWP white paper out soon and a major attack on the ‘economically inactive’—disguised as ‘help’—about to begin.
tinyurl.com/533ew4x8
EMPLOYMENT figures for the U.K. may UNDERESTIMATE #employment by 1%, making them overly pessimistic.
This matters hugely with the #DWP white paper out soon and a major attack on the ‘economically inactive’—disguised as ‘help’—about to begin.
tinyurl.com/533ew4x8
ONS may have ‘lost’ a million workers from job figures since pandemic
Resolution Foundation says figures are ‘overly pessimistic’ as people in work are less likely to answer survey
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November 20, 2024 at 7:56 AM
Employment and mental health (or any disability); a 🧵:
It’s really important for us all to recognise the difference in what’s portrayed and what’s reality when it comes to the economically inactive.
In our employment services @cellartrust.bsky.social we know that people generally want work.
1/6
It’s really important for us all to recognise the difference in what’s portrayed and what’s reality when it comes to the economically inactive.
In our employment services @cellartrust.bsky.social we know that people generally want work.
1/6
This all sounds wearingly familiar so here's a shortish thread (1/9) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Social care 'impasse' at top of government - so what next, asks Laura Kuenssberg
Multiple sources say the Treasury is deeply nervous about the cost of fixing social care, and that the PM is yet to decide how to proceed.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 16, 2024 at 11:05 PM
This all sounds wearingly familiar so here's a shortish thread (1/9) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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It's not that top-down performance management and #NHS league tables don't work. The problem is HOW they work. bit.ly/blog15Nov2024
The politics of hitting the target and missing the point - Public World
Sometimes the politics of British health and social care drives a response to their problems that makes actually tackling them even harder. In fact, let’s correct that. That happens all the time, but ...
bit.ly
November 16, 2024 at 8:59 AM
It's not that top-down performance management and #NHS league tables don't work. The problem is HOW they work. bit.ly/blog15Nov2024
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Is @wypartnership the first ICS to appoint a Chief Social Worker? Hope others will swiftly follow #socialwork www.wypartnership.co.uk/blog/rob-mit...
This week’s leadership message is from Rob Mitchell, Chief Social Worker for Adults, West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership and Principal Social Worker for Bradford Council :: West Yorkshire Healt...
www.wypartnership.co.uk
November 16, 2024 at 8:37 AM
Is @wypartnership the first ICS to appoint a Chief Social Worker? Hope others will swiftly follow #socialwork www.wypartnership.co.uk/blog/rob-mit...
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In North Birkenhead, Cradle to Career is a living example of what happens when services join up, driven by community priorities. They have:
⏺ Reduced social care referrals by 20%
⏺ Closed 15-month reading age gap
⏺ Gone from the highest-need community in Wirral to 4th highest
How: buff.ly/48Ia20D
⏺ Reduced social care referrals by 20%
⏺ Closed 15-month reading age gap
⏺ Gone from the highest-need community in Wirral to 4th highest
How: buff.ly/48Ia20D
Cradle to Career: How place-based collaboration is transforming North Birkenhead - New Local
In North Birkenhead a unique programme is joining up services and putting community priorities at the heart of decision making, creating impact that could make it a model for national policy change.
buff.ly
November 7, 2024 at 8:57 AM
In North Birkenhead, Cradle to Career is a living example of what happens when services join up, driven by community priorities. They have:
⏺ Reduced social care referrals by 20%
⏺ Closed 15-month reading age gap
⏺ Gone from the highest-need community in Wirral to 4th highest
How: buff.ly/48Ia20D
⏺ Reduced social care referrals by 20%
⏺ Closed 15-month reading age gap
⏺ Gone from the highest-need community in Wirral to 4th highest
How: buff.ly/48Ia20D
Very much agree with Neil's reflections
Should there be a national 'dementia pathway' and if so what would its key features be? Some thoughts makingrightsmakesense.wordpress.com/2024/10/27/a...
A ‘dementia pathway’?
Last week, NICE echoed its earlier position on the Alzheimer’s drug lecenamab and advised that the benefits of donanemab did not, based on current evidence outweigh the costs of making it ava…
makingrightsmakesense.wordpress.com
October 28, 2024 at 8:37 AM
Very much agree with Neil's reflections
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✨✨New from the Health Foundation
What does personalised prevention have to offer?
Read this thoughtful piece from Talia Boshari and colleagues
www.health.org.uk/publications...
What does personalised prevention have to offer?
Read this thoughtful piece from Talia Boshari and colleagues
www.health.org.uk/publications...
Personalised prevention in England
This analysis looks at the definition of personalised prevention, what aims and ambitions the government has for its use and where more evidence is needed to help achieve them.
www.health.org.uk
September 17, 2024 at 7:36 PM
✨✨New from the Health Foundation
What does personalised prevention have to offer?
Read this thoughtful piece from Talia Boshari and colleagues
www.health.org.uk/publications...
What does personalised prevention have to offer?
Read this thoughtful piece from Talia Boshari and colleagues
www.health.org.uk/publications...
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Have been thinking about the impact Darzi's review will have on health reform for the next period. A wee thread... (which isn't very easy on this platform! 🙃). First up, it's good to have this very clear, unambiguous description of how the NHS lets down far too many people.
September 16, 2024 at 10:16 AM
Have been thinking about the impact Darzi's review will have on health reform for the next period. A wee thread... (which isn't very easy on this platform! 🙃). First up, it's good to have this very clear, unambiguous description of how the NHS lets down far too many people.
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Why is the #Darzi review both not surprising but also so important. Because it’s real, it’s emotionally intelligent & it resonates. I explain more here www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/wh...
Why is the Darzi report so important?
Following the publication of this week’s high-profile report from Lord Darzi about the state of the NHS, Thea Stein reflects on how such a paper can simultaneously be so unsurprising yet also so impor...
www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk
September 13, 2024 at 11:36 AM
Why is the #Darzi review both not surprising but also so important. Because it’s real, it’s emotionally intelligent & it resonates. I explain more here www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/wh...
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Sensible perspective on where the Darzi review leaves social care from ADASS VP Jess McGregor www.adass.org.uk/lord-darzis-...
Lord Darzi's NHS report provides hope for social care - ADASS
Jess McGregor is the Director of Adult Social Services at Camden Council and Vice President of ADASS (the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services). Lord Darzi’s greatly anticipated report in...
www.adass.org.uk
September 12, 2024 at 12:55 PM
Sensible perspective on where the Darzi review leaves social care from ADASS VP Jess McGregor www.adass.org.uk/lord-darzis-...