17 June, 2015
17 June, 2015
New figures from Age UK show an 'escalating social care crisis' in England with 2.43 million bed days lost to the NHS between June 2010 and March 2015 as people wait too long for vital social care.
12 June, 2015
New research report from Independent Age, on providing unpaid care in later life, finds that lack of support for older carers has consequences for individuals’ health and wellbeing that are profound, and sometimes devastating.
12 June, 2015
Press release from the Carers Trust also highlights that young carers are four times more likely to drop out of college or university than a young person who isn’t in a caring role.
11 June, 2015
Bill - which received first reading in House of Lords yesterday - to entitle employees to take a period of leave to fulfil certain caring responsibilities in respect of dependants; and for connected purposes.
11 June, 2015
New National Audit Office report on New Burdens Doctrine also find that DCLG needs to use intelligence better, to improve its understanding of the pressures affecting local authorities’ financial sustainability.
11 June, 2015
10 June, 2015
New report argues that the fragmentation of commissioning is a major obstacle to integrating health and social care and improving outcomes for people.
9 June, 2015
New data from the Office for National Statistics forecasts that numbers providing unpaid care are expected to double over the next 30 years, while the proportion of older people in care homes has remained stable since 2011 despite an 11 per cent increase in the population at this age.
9 June, 2015
House of Commons briefing paper that sets out the rights and benefits afforded to carers in law, covering employment rights, protection from discrimination and social security benefits.
5 June, 2015
Extra funding to develop services to support people with dementia and increase the availability of psychological therapies across Wales.
4 June, 2015
New regulations issued that make provision in relation to Section 54 of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 that imposes a duty on a local authority to prepare and maintain a care and support plan for an adult or child to whom it owes a duty to meet needs under section 35 or 37 of the Act and to prepare a support plan for a carer to whom it owes a duty to meet needs under section 40 or 42 of the Act.
4 June, 2015
In the face of a £1.1bn budget cut and 'almost unendurable' cutbacks in the past four years, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services have put out an urgent plea for 'sustained and substantial' additional funds to avoid further damage to the lives of older and vulnerable people.
29 May, 2015
Joint investigation, by Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman and the Local Government Ombudsman, found that the woman was left without the right care package for more than a year, because of a dispute between Sheffield City Council and Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust about the appropriate amount of support she should receive.
28 May, 2015
Funding will support the Care and Repair service - which provides adaptations such as ramps, handrails, and safety alarms - and the Rapid Response Adaptations Programme - which provides minor adaptations to help prevent people from having to be admitted to hospital and enable those who are in hospital to be discharged earlier.
26 May, 2015
New statutory instrument makes provision in in respect of the way in which residential accommodation, and residential accommodation with nursing, is provided in England, Wales and Northern Ireland by a local authority in fulfilment of their duties under the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 or the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003.
22 May, 2015
New research from Carers Scotland also finds that 41 per cent of carers in Scotland want increasing financial support for families providing unpaid care to be the government’s top priority.
20 May, 2015
New report highlights cases where people's suffering could have been avoided or lessened with the right care and treatment, and says that end of life care could be improved for 335,000 people a year in England.
20 May, 2015
Three year programme to find new and innovative ways to help people with illness, disability or injury to lead healthy lives and stay in their own homes.
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