9 February, 2016
8 February, 2016
Analysis finds that yearly care home fees increased on average by £900 across England in the last financial year, but that 8 per cent of care homes in England give only a week’s notice that their fees are going to rise.
8 February, 2016
£27m being made available to maintain support for more than 1,600 disabled people in Wales to live independently.
5 February, 2016
4 February, 2016
New regulations that extend blue badge eligibility to cover a person who has a mental disorder as defined by section 328 of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 and who is in receipt of a specified rate of the care component of disability living allowance, attendance allowance or the daily living component of personal independence payment.
4 February, 2016
New regulations that amend the National Assistance (Assessment of Resources) Regulations 1992 so that the amounts of savings credit to be disregarded from income in accordance with paragraph 28G of Schedule 3 are increased from £6.00 and £9.00 to £6.15 and £9.25 respectively from 11th April 2016.
4 February, 2016
4 February, 2016
New report from Scottish Care highlights 40 individual case studies in which individual workers give their insight into what it means to care and outline the benefits that good care can bring to the lives of those who need support.
3 February, 2016
Finance Secretary John Swinney writes to each of Scotland's 32 Council leaders giving a deadline of February 9 to respond to the deal.
2 February, 2016
Community Care reports that local authorities in England face a significant shortfall in adult social care funding in the coming financial year despite the government allowing them to raise council tax by 2 per cent to fund adult services.
1 February, 2016
Health Minister Simon Hamilton confirms the release of additional funding by the Health and Social Care Board to provide a support package for recruitment in the care sector.
29 January, 2016
New statutory instrument commences provisions to give the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care the power to charge for advice, reports or investigations it has been commissioned to carry out by the Secretary of State, the Welsh Ministers, the Scottish Ministers or a relevant Northern Ireland department.
29 January, 2016
New report from Unison found that the limited time allocated means the majority of workers (85 per cent) said they regularly didn’t even have time for a conversation during some homecare visits, one third (32 per cent) said they have no time to address people’s personal hygiene needs such as washing, and a quarter (24 per cent) have no time to take people to the toilet.
28 January, 2016
Planned roll-out in 2016 deferred for four years, but pilot areas will be able to continue offering direct payments to care home residents.
27 January, 2016
View sought on services that enable people with disabilities to remain at home and enhance their independence within their local community.
27 January, 2016
Funding made available through the 'Sustainable Social Services: Delivering Transformation' grant for 2016/2017 will support the transition to new arrangements under the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014.
21 January, 2016
New report from the Local Government Ombudsman highlights that, in this case, clear advice not being available led to a vulnerable woman receiving less care and support than she might have been entitled to for a number of years.
21 January, 2016
Extra money - announced by Health and Social Services Minister Mark Drakeford - will support a series of measures to reduce the number of people, the majority of which are older people, who are unable to leave hospital for social care reasons, freeing up hospital beds for patients who need them.
21 January, 2016
New report from AgeUK and RNIB finds that, although care and support services have declined for all adults with a physical disability, older people with sight loss have been especially badly affected, and this has considerable consequences for the wider health and wellbeing of older blind and partially sighted people, and for their independence.
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