3 December, 2014
3 December, 2014
[2014] EWHC 4005 (QB)
2 December, 2014
'As publicly funded care continues to be squeezed, the danger is that good providers are driven out, and those providers who make a profit by exploiting workers thrive', says Paul Burstow.
2 December, 2014
Commission highlights 'landmark' Sherriff Court ruling that a Scottish Council acted unlawfully when it removed a disabled student’s support package on the day he turned 18.
26 November, 2014
Policy and legislative priorities include an independent commission to report on fairer alternatives to the council tax by Autumn 2015; and more power for carers over the services that affect them through the Carers Bill.
25 November, 2014
[2014] EWCA Civ 1518
20 November, 2014
19 November, 2014
Report highlights cuts in spending on care and housing as cuts to funding from government lead to over a quarter of single tier and county councils making unplanned reductions in service spend to deliver their 2013-2014 budgets.
19 November, 2014
Case involving Rooks (Care Homes) Ltd shows how information it provides can help inform people's choices about care, says Ombudsman.
14 November, 2014
Local government ombudsman finds that, although it is not a legal requirement to provide same sex carers, where a request is made for valid reasons, a provider should make every effort to provide same sex care, and the Equality Act 2010 allows for the recruitment of staff of a specific sex as an occupational requirement.
14 November, 2014
Investigation by Community Care finds the average spend per council on temporary agency staff is £1.8 million, although there are regional variations with many Scottish and Welsh councils reporting almost no spending on agency workers and six out of the top ten biggest spending councils being in Greater London and the home counties.
11 November, 2014
New statutory instrument prescribes the kinds of activities that are regulated activities for the purposes of Part 1 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 and requirements that apply in relation to the way in which those activities are carried on.
11 November, 2014
Guardian also reports that, according to the Association, total number of meals provided by UK meals on wheels services and lunch clubs has more than halved from 40m to 19m in the past decade.
11 November, 2014
New report highlights that fund - which aims to deliver better, more joined-up local services to older and disabled people to keep them out of hospital and avoid long hospital stays - is expected to deliver £314m of savings for the NHS rather than the £1bn in early planning assumptions.
10 November, 2014
View sought on draft statutory guidance for local authorities and NHS organisations to support implementation of 'Think Autism' which is the update to the 2010 adult autism strategy.
10 November, 2014
[2014] EWHC 3670 (Admin)
6 November, 2014
New statutory instrument makes provision in relation to duty on local authorities to arrange for an independent advocate to be available to represent and support certain persons for the purpose of facilitating those persons’ involvement in the exercise of functions by local authorities.
6 November, 2014
Committee to examine the way that health and social care services, and the voluntary and community sector, support people who are likely to die within 12 months, what opportunities exist for better integration and for improving care quality, and the experience of those caring for people at the end of life.
6 November, 2014
[2014] EWHC 3626 (Admin)
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