31 March, 2014
31 March, 2014
New regulations amend regulation 2 of the Community Care (Personal Care and Nursing Care) (Scotland) Regulations 2002 to increase the thresholds below which certain care is not to be charged for, to £169 for specified forms of personal care, and to £77 in respect of nursing care.
31 March, 2014
LITRG expesses its disappointment that 'there appears to have been no public consultation on this substantial change'.
31 March, 2014
CommunityCare.org.uk reports on note issued by the DoH that advises social care professionals to reassess the cases of people who lack capacity to decide on their care to determine whether they are being deprived of their liberty following the Supreme Court's recent ruling.
28 March, 2014
New regulations extend a pilot scheme to all English local authorities allowing them to contract out specified adult social services functions to third parties.
27 March, 2014
New legal duty will mean that health and social care organisations registered with the Care Quality Commission will have to ensure that directors (or equivalent) meet the fit and proper person test.
26 March, 2014
26 March, 2014
Research by Nuffield Trust and Health Foundation highlights 'increased rationing of social care in response to deep cuts from central government, despite the growing numbers of older people in the population'.
25 March, 2014
Finding against Newham Council, Local Government Ombudsman says that family was given 'Hobson’s choice' when it came to accepting accommodation they were offered - 'they had the choice of something unsuitable or nothing at all.'
25 March, 2014
Guide to maintaining award up until closure of Fund on 30 June 2015.
24 March, 2014
New guidance - which aims to help social workers in their practice and to contribute to good outcomes for service users - also has regulatory purpose as 'failure to follow the guidance could put a social worker's registration at risk'.
20 March, 2014
Disabled man had been placed in extra care housing scheme and expected to pay for care despite having his needs met by a friend.
20 March, 2014
Court holds that criteria for judging whether the living arrangements made for a mentally incapacitated person amount to a deprivation of liberty.
19 March, 2014
Richard Humphries of The King's Fund looks at how social care can meet one of this generation's biggest policy challenges
19 March, 2014
Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Bill - designed to ensure that people have access to clear information, advice and assistance, and to place their voice and rights at the centre of decisions about their care and support - has entered the final stages of scrutiny in the National Assembly.
18 March, 2014
Community Care blog outlines the 'moral and economic case' for social work as key part of adult services.
14 March, 2014
New legislation designed to assist - among others - those physically disabled, seriously ill or mentally incapacitated leaseholders currently unable to benefit from the exercise of their rights, for example to take part in collective enfranchisement or to extend their leases.
14 March, 2014
New regulations issued that set the level of the residential care personal expenses allowance at £24.40 a week from 7 April 2014.
14 March, 2014
'Action Plan sets out a vision which should excite and challenge every council and care provider', says Think Local Act Personal's Co-Chair.
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