5 November, 2014
5 November, 2014
New statistics from the Health and Social Care Information Centre show that there were 31,300 deprivation of liberty applications made in the second quarter of 2014/2015, compared to 22,800 in the first quarter, and just 12,500 in the whole of 2013/2014.
5 November, 2014
New report from the United Kingdom Home Care Association recommends that councils should pay a minimum of £15.74 per hour for home care services - an increase of 55p per hour - in order to cover the costs of the workforce allowing full compliance with the national minimum wage including the time spent travelling between service users' homes.
4 November, 2014
Welsh Government highlights new right, from 1 November 2014, for those who fund their own social services or palliative care in Wales.
3 November, 2014
Community Care reports on announcement by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt of increase in pooled resource for integrated health and social care services.
3 November, 2014
Written statement to parliament today sets out powers for newly elected Mayor including control of a £300m Housing Investment Fund and invitation to develop a business plan for the integration of health and social care across Greater Manchester.
31 October, 2014
30 October, 2014
New regulations specify the persons who are to be treated as being sight-impaired and severely sight-impaired for the purposes of section 77 of the Care Act 2014 which sets out the requirement on local authorities to establish and maintain a register of adults who are ordinarily resident in their area and are sight-impaired or severely sight-impaired.
30 October, 2014
New regulations make provision, under section 2 of the Care Act 2014, for when a local authority can make a charge for the provision of services, facilities and resources, including requirement for a local authority to provide or arrange for the provision of services, facilities or resources (or take other steps) which it considers will contribute towards preventing, delaying or reducing the needs for care and support of adults or for support in relation to carers.
30 October, 2014
New regulations make provision for limitations on local authority powers to make a charge for meeting needs under section 14 of the Care Act 2014 and in relation to financial assessments for the purposes of section 17 of the Act.
30 October, 2014
New regulations make provision in relation to the obligation under the Care Act 2014 that, where an adult’s needs are to be met by the provision of specified types of accommodation, and the adult has expressed a preference for particular accommodation of that type, the local authority must meet the adult’s preference, provided that specified conditions are met.
30 October, 2014
Policy paper from the Department of Health explains the progress on supporting carers since 2010 and explains the main actions for the next two years.
30 October, 2014
Of the 98 per cent of councils that responded to a Freedom of Information request by Unison, 79 per cent admitted that they have never asked to see pay records or other written evidence about the pay of care workers employed by care providers they commission, in order to check National Minimum Wage compliance.
30 October, 2014
[2014] EWHC 3557 (Admin)
29 October, 2014
New research also shows that most social workers (66 per cent) said their caseload had gone up this year, with 30 per cent saying it had increased a lot, and 36 per cent reporting a small increase.
29 October, 2014
New statutory instrument provides that a local authority must exclude costs of meeting needs from a person’s personal budget in certain circumstances if the costs are incurred in meeting needs by the provision to the person of intermediate care and reablement support services.
29 October, 2014
New statutory instruments
28 October, 2014
[2014] EWHC 3537 (Admin)
28 October, 2014
Entrepreneurs invited to submit ideas for technological adaptations to help disabled people and their families lead more independent lives, with prizes totalling £400,000.
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