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In England, social care is defined as the provision of social work, personal care, protection or social support services to children or adults in need or at risk, or adults with needs arising from illness, disability, old age or poverty.
These primary care trusts took over the functions of health authoriiesy, which were abolished under the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Social care in England was reorganised to be structured into these trusts which would pool their services - this was the first time that health and social care ...
Social care in the United Kingdom is a devolved matter, so England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales each have their own separate systems of private and publicly funded social care. Each country has differing policies, priorities and funding levels which has resulted in a variety of differences existing between the systems.
Before the official establishment of the modern welfare state, clear examples of social welfare existed to help the poor and vulnerable within British society. A key date in the welfare state's history is 1563; when Queen Elizabeth I's government encouraged the wealthier members of society to give to the poor, [ 2 ] by passing the Poor Act 1562 .
Health and social care (often abbreviated to HSC or H&SC) is a term that relates to services that are available from health and social care providers in the United Kingdom. This is a generic term used to refer to the whole of the healthcare provision infrastructure, and private sector. [ 1 ]
The Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.It provided for the most extensive reorganisation of the structure of the National Health Service in England to date. [1]
In the 2016 report Children’s Social Care Reform: A Vision for Change, the Department for Education announced their intention to create a new regulatory organisation for social workers in England that would come to be SWE. [3] Social Work England was established under the Children and Social Work Act 2017. [1]
The Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (PSA), formerly the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence (CHRE) and the Council for the Regulation of Health Care Professionals, oversees the ten statutory bodies that regulate health professionals in the United Kingdom and social care in England. [1]