4 September, 2015
2 September, 2015
It is 'time to think boldly', Local Government Association says in its 2015 Spending Review submission.
24 August, 2015
New DCLG funding for 'innovative and cost effective proposals to deliver accommodation based services for victims of abuse, and for services to help them access such support'.
20 August, 2015
New regulations that provide that care home accommodation qualifies as a specified type of accommodation for the purposes of establishing an adult's ordinary residence under the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014.
18 August, 2015
Reminder to local authorities prompted by an investigation following a complaint about North East Lincolnshire Council.
18 August, 2015
Decision follows review which concluded that the purpose of the ring-fence – to protect expenditure on mental health services – has largely been achieved.
11 August, 2015
10 August, 2015
Association proposes that those who provide at least an hour of unpaid care a week should be entitled to a reduction of £100 a year, estimating that a fully subscribed discount fund of £25m would support at least 250,000 hours of unpaid care per week, saving up to £220m a year.
10 August, 2015
Andrea Sutcliffe tells Observer that huge cuts in funding in recent years, and a lack of political leadership in dealing with the realities of an ageing population, have left the social care sector under 'stress and strain', with demoralised carers working long hours in difficult conditions for poor pay.
6 August, 2015
Local Government Ombudsman finds that Councils must properly consider individual circumstances when they balance people’s choice to be cared for by a family member against the risk to their carer of working long hours,
5 August, 2015
In first case taken under Care Act 2014, High Court confirms that local authorities continue to have duties to accommodate asylum seekers whose needs for care and support does not arise solely because of destitution or its anticipated effects.
4 August, 2015
Despite affecting thousands of families, timing of government's announcement has effectively prevented major shift in policy being properly debated in Parliament, says Sarah Wollaston MP.
3 August, 2015
New regulations issued in Wales that set out the test which a local authority must apply to determine whether or not an individual with needs identified in an assessment under section 19, 21 or 24 of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 is entitled to have those needs met by a local authority.
30 July, 2015
Local government advises that, whether the service contract is for adult social care or debt recovery, local councils cannot simply accept at face value the outcome of a complaint review conducted by firms acting on their behalf.
29 July, 2015
Views from registered stakeholders sought by 9 September 2015.
23 July, 2015
Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (Social Enterprise, Co-operative and Third Sector) (Wales) Regulations 2015 provide further detail about the sorts of organisations or arrangements which may provide care and support and preventative services, and also make provision as to what constitutes activity which a person might reasonably consider to be carried on for the benefit of society.
23 July, 2015
New report from the Institute for Public Policy Research says personal health budgets should be an entitlement for all those with long-term conditions by 2020, expanding from around a quarter of a million patients to more than ten million.
22 July, 2015
New statutory instrument make provision concerning disputes between local authorities about where a person is ordinarily resident in Wales for the purposes of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 and disputes between a sending and receiving authority under section 56 of the Act (portability of care and support) about the application of that section in relation to a person.
22 July, 2015
New statutory instrument requires Local Health Boards and local authorities to enter into partnership arrangements for the purpose of carrying out their functions under section 14 of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014.
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