30 October, 2014
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.
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
28 October, 2014
New statistics, for period up to September 2014, on numbers of individual users receiving a payment by local authority area, together with totals for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
27 October, 2014
New regulations set out the procedures to be followed when disputes arise between local authorities regarding a person’s ordinary residence under Part 1 of the Care Act 2014, or about the application of sections 37 (continuity of care and support – notification and assessment) or 48 (provider failure – temporary duty on local authority) of that Act.
27 October, 2014
New regulations specify and define three types of accommodation for the purposes of establishing an adult’s ordinary residence in a case where an adult is living in accommodation of a specified type: care home accommodation, shared lives scheme accommodation and supported living accommodation.
27 October, 2014
New regulations set out matters that local authority must take into account in carrying out duty to provide care for someone who has just moved into area on same basis as previous authority.
27 October, 2014
New regulations make 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.
23 October, 2014
In addition, Department provides proposed final version of regulations that will form the basis for the new legal framework ahead of implementation in April 2015.
23 October, 2014
New guidance sets out how Act will work in practice when the first phase of the reforms comes into effect next year.
17 October, 2014
Report from the Care Quality Commission says recruitment of nurses to social care should be a ‘priority’ and points to figures from Skills for Care showing that nurses in social care had the highest turnover rate - 32 per cent - of all social care roles.
14 October, 2014
New report from Action for Children calls on all political parties to prioritise the emotional and mental health of children in care and care leavers, keep children safe when they return to their family after care, and to not give up on young people when their lives are at their most challenging.
13 October, 2014
Report, published today, finds that the gap in the quality of care means it is likely that someone living with dementia will experience poor care as they move between care homes and hospitals.
13 October, 2014
Department of Health seeks views on what social workers who work with adults need to know and be able to do at the end of their first year in practice.
9 October, 2014
New statutory instrument makes amendments with the effect that a refuge in Wales must be treated as one dwelling for the purpose of council tax provision, even if the property comprises more than one self-contained unit.
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