2 December, 2013
29 November, 2013
Welsh Government is seeking views on its proposals to improve the way complaints and concerns about social services are dealt with.
29 November, 2013
Local Government Ombudsman report highlights common issues it finds in complaints about the treatment of carers who look after young relatives or the children of friends by local authorities.
27 November, 2013
Local Government Ombudsman report found that family's request for extra support was turned down because Calderdale Council never completed a core assessment of their child's needs.
25 November, 2013
Association of Directors of Adult Social Services says that the reforms will incentivise many more self-funders to approach their council and 'low-level' assessments may have to be outsourced.
21 November, 2013
Peter Tyndall tells BBC Wales that the system for the delivery of health and social care outside hospital is too complex and needs one body to manage services.
19 November, 2013
14 November, 2013
10,000 older people to be helped with tailored advice and practical support through new services, adding to 20,000 assisted last year.
11 November, 2013
Launched today by the Department of Health, the website will show how carers and people receiving local authority funded care and support rate factors such as quality of their life, satisfaction with care services and feeling safe, and will enable people to compare their council’s performance against others.
11 November, 2013
New Department of Health publication sets out the indicators for measuring how well care and support services achieve 'the outcomes that matter most to people'.
7 November, 2013
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6 November, 2013
Deighton Pierce Glynn solicitors welcome 'powerful ruling' that Minister for Disabled People had breached equality duties when making decision in December 2012 to close Fund.
29 October, 2013
Strategy, launched today, will ensure that all government action across every department 'is working with one single, united purpose to improve the lives of these vulnerable young people', says Children and Families Minister
24 October, 2013
Care and Support Alliance reports that proposed care needs threshold means that approximately 360,000 vulnerable people will receive no financial support towards their care.
24 October, 2013
Ombudsman finds that Council should have arranged care rather than providing direct payments which meant that the mother had to organise care for herself.
24 October, 2013
New King's Fund report looks at the key components of effective strategies employed by studying five UK-based programmes to deliver co-ordinated health and social care for people with long-term and complex needs.
23 October, 2013
Head of Low Pay Commission also tells the Guardian that cuts in funding means that councils are cutting the rates that they paid care companies to wash, feed and dress the elderly and frail.
17 October, 2013
From April 2014 Care Quality Commission is 'proposing to look at whether home care visits are long enough to respond to people’s needs'.
17 October, 2013
Responses from public, people who use services, carers, Commission staff, professionals and voluntary organisations show that there is agreement with new approach, says Commission.
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