22 July, 2015
22 July, 2015
[2015] UKSC 51
17 July, 2015
Government said it is still 'fully committed' to the cap - which was due to limit care costs to £72,000 from April 2016 - but has delayed the introduction after councils wrote to ministers to say it was not possible to cope with the extra demands the changes would bring at the moment.
17 July, 2015
Review aims to address the overlap of different inspection regimes to 'keep necessary protections but avoid wasteful duplication'.
17 July, 2015
New report from the National Audit Office highlights that the cost of not moving into adulthood successfully is high, and calls for stronger central and local leadership to get a grip on the problem.
14 July, 2015
Departmental staff to share their professional skills and expertise, conduct department-wide fundraising activities and volunteer their own time to support Carers UK over the next year.
14 July, 2015
13 July, 2015
New report highlights areas needing further attention including mandating joint health and social care commissioning of neurological services and ensuring that everyone with a long-term neurological condition is offered a personal care plan, covering both health and social care.
13 July, 2015
LGA supports introduction of Living Wage but says that its vital that extra cost of wages for council workers and care workers is considered by government in wider debate on council funding.
8 July, 2015
Recommendation based on national survey of children in care which found that nearly a third felt that they had left care before they were ready to fend for themselves.
8 July, 2015
New statutory instrument provides for the persons to be excluded from the definition of 'relevant health or adult social care commissioner or provider' for the purposes of sections 251A, 251B and 251C of the Health and Social Care Act 2012.
8 July, 2015
7 July, 2015
New statutory instrument specify the description of the consistent identifier to be used by relevant health or adult social care commissioners or providers as defined by section 251A(3) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012.
7 July, 2015
New analysis shows that number of older people who have difficulty with basic tasks such as getting out of bed, washing and dressing but who get no help has now risen to 1,004,000.
7 July, 2015
Guardian reports that idea of 'pausing' the cost cap, due to be brought in next April, is being discussed urgently in Whitehall following intervention from Local Government Association.
7 July, 2015
[2015] EWHC 1843 (Admin)
6 July, 2015
In new report, King's Fund says that, unless new funding is announced in Wednesday's Budget, the government must 'face the consequences' since either patient care will suffer or the Department of Health will overspend its budget this year and further reductions in access to social care are inevitable.
6 July, 2015
New report from Alzheimer's Society sets out results of survey of GPs including that 77 per cent think their patients with dementia rely on family as they don't get enough help from health and social care services.
2 July, 2015
New report from CPAG Scotland that looks at how the concordat commitment has impacted on Scottish kinship carers and the children for whom they care, and considers some of the challenges that lie ahead.
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