28 January, 2016
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.
20 January, 2016
19 January, 2016
New report from the Local Government Ombudsman states that councils must offer families the option of a nursing or care home placement which does not need a top-up fee or fund the top-up themselves.
19 January, 2016
New Act makes provision for the registration and regulation of persons providing care home services, secure accommodation services, residential family centre services, adoption services, fostering services, adult placement services, advocacy services and domiciliary support services, and renames the Care Council for Wales as Social Care Wales and provides for it to carry out advice and assistance.
19 January, 2016
Welsh Government launches consultation on potential action to improve recruitment and retention of domiciliary care workers after research shows there is a clear relationship between domiciliary care employment terms and conditions and the quality of care provided.
18 January, 2016
New regulations issued that provide that the amounts of savings credit to be disregarded from income in the assessment of a person’s liability to pay for accommodation provided under the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 or section 25 of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003, are increased from £6.00 and £9.00 to £6.15 and £9.25 respectively from 4 April 2016.
18 January, 2016
New regulations issued that provide for an increase in the sum that a local authority should assume, in assessing a person’s liability to pay for accommodation provided under the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 or section 25 of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003, that they will need for their personal requirements, to £25.80 per week from 4 April 2016.
12 January, 2016
Sharing of data between local authorities and CCGs designed to help commissioners fulfil objectives set out in the NHS planning guidance by making information readily available to identify variation, investigate the reasons for any differences and improve outcome.
7 January, 2016
Bill will establish an independent commission to examine the future of the National Health Service and the social care system, to take evidence, and to report its conclusions to Parliament.
6 January, 2016
New regulations that set out the requirements which local authorities must follow when making a determination of the amount of the charges which apply in relation to care and support which they are providing or arranging or propose to provide or arrange in the course of carrying our their functions under Part 4 of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014.
21 December, 2015
Feedback sought on extending eligibility to people with temporary qualifying conditions that are likely to last at least 12 months, and on streamlining the assessment process, including the need for GP assessments.
21 December, 2015
[2015] EWHC 3731 (Admin)
21 December, 2015
[2015] EWHC 3712 (Admin)
21 December, 2015
Department of Health seeking views on allowing the Care Quality Commission to include in its fee scheme the cost of inspections which look beyond registration requirements.
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