23 December, 2014
23 December, 2014
Telegraph reports on survey of freedom of information requests showing that 'hundreds of thousands of pensioners are receiving care at home which is so brief that they have to choose between eating or being taken to the lavatory'.
23 December, 2014
Views sought, by 26 January 2015, on draft regulations that amplify and underpin Section 96 of the Children and Families Act 2014 which introduced new rights to improve how young carers and their families are identified and supported.
19 December, 2014
New guidance from the Scottish government to support clinical and care staff who are planning and providing care during the last days and hours of life designed to ensure that patients and relatives are given the best support possible.
19 December, 2014
A legal obligation to report any child or adult believed to be at risk of abuse or neglect will be implemented in Wales in 2016 as part of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014.
19 December, 2014
£55.5m grant introduced to fund increase in carer's assessments and support wider Care Act implementation from April 2015.
18 December, 2014
9 December, 2014
New statistics from the Health and Social Care Information Centre report on the social care activity of Councils with Adult Social Services Responsibilities in England.
9 December, 2014
New statistics from the Health and Social Care Information Centre show that the proportion of people using social care who receive self-directed support has increased from 29.2 per cent in 2010/2011 to 61.9 per cent in 2013/2-14.
9 December, 2014
New report from the Health and Social Care Information Centre that provides a detailed analysis of findings from the Adult Social Care Survey for 2013/2014, which seeks to learn more about how effectively services are helping service users to live safely and independently in their own homes, and the impact of services on their quality of life.
9 December, 2014
New statistics from the Health and Social Care Information Centre that provide information about the money spent on adult social care by the social services departments of Councils with Adult Social Services Responsibilities in England.
8 December, 2014
New statutory instrument commences provisions of the Care Act 2014 from 1st April 2015 relating to the establishment of a new body corporate called Health Education England.
4 December, 2014
New report from the King's Fund explores how community care providers define and measure quality and recommends important next steps to support better measurement and management of quality.
3 December, 2014
Extension announced in today's Autumn Statement (paragraph 1.234) means that a family will be able to employ a care worker on a salary of up to £22,500 and pay no employer NI contributions and, in addition, care workers will be exempted from the impacts of removing the £8,500 threshold below which employees do not pay income tax on benefits in kind.
2 December, 2014
'As publicly funded care continues to be squeezed, the danger is that good providers are driven out, and those providers who make a profit by exploiting workers thrive', says Paul Burstow.
2 December, 2014
Commission highlights 'landmark' Sherriff Court ruling that a Scottish Council acted unlawfully when it removed a disabled student’s support package on the day he turned 18.
26 November, 2014
Policy and legislative priorities include an independent commission to report on fairer alternatives to the council tax by Autumn 2015; and more power for carers over the services that affect them through the Carers Bill.
20 November, 2014
BBS reports that new guidance, which is expected to be published in the new year, covers the issues of privacy and dignity that should be considered before taking the step of using a covert camera.
19 November, 2014
Report highlights cuts in spending on care and housing as cuts to funding from government lead to over a quarter of single tier and county councils making unplanned reductions in service spend to deliver their 2013-2014 budgets.
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