11 February, 2016
10 February, 2016
9 February, 2016
New regulations issued that amend the Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993 by prescribing a new form of a Blue Badge and increase the fee for a badge to £10.00 as part of proposed administrative improvements to the Blue Badge service.
9 February, 2016
Department for Communities and Local Government highlights that up to £2bn will come from a 2 per cent social care precept in council tax - the equivalent of £23 a year on an average Band D home in 2016/2017 – to provide dedicated caring for the growing elderly population.
8 February, 2016
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
New regulations that set the sum for personal requirements for the purposes of section 22(4) of the National Assistance Act 1948 as £25.80 per week.
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
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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.
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