2 July, 2015
2 July, 2015
Department of Health notice that sets out the Department's position on the determination of questions of ordinary residence referred to the Secretary of State under section 40 of the Care Act 2014, pending the department’s appeal to the Supreme Court in the case of Cornwall Council v Secretary of State for Health and Others (Cornwall) - judgment is due on 8 July 2015.
2 July, 2015
New regulations bring into force a number of provisions including imposing requirements to secure that health and social care services provided in the course of carrying on regulated activities do not cause avoidable harm, and imposing a new duty on relevant health or adult social care commissioners or providers to share information held about an individual where they consider that the disclosure is likely to facilitate the care provided to the individual and is in their best interests.
1 July, 2015
New £20m fund to support more than 1,600 disabled people in Wales with their care needs comes into operation today,
30 June, 2015
Charity warns that, with money from Fund being transferred to local authorities without ring fencing, some disabled people will no longer receive any support at all and others will find their support package reduced.
25 June, 2015
Annual Review of Local Government Complaints for 2014/2015, published today, also warns that many councils are dealing with increasing numbers of complaints and have less resource available to manage them due to resources being cut in complaint handling teams.
24 June, 2015
24 June, 2015
Community Care reports on announcement by Northern Ireland’s health minister Simon Hamilton.
24 June, 2015
New report by Ernst and Young, commissioned by Local Government Association, proposes that government use next month's Budget to divert £1.3bn into a transformation fund each year until 2019/20, equalling a fund of £5.2bn by the end of the decade, to develop a new health and social care system.
24 June, 2015
Calling for an eleventh-hour turnaround on government plans to close the Independent Living Fund, disability experts from the University of East Anglia present two new pieces of research which also show that older disabled people face a gap between the true costs of their care, and the disability benefits and publicly funded social care they receive, especially at high levels of disability.
18 June, 2015
Law Commission to publish draft legislation and detailed proposals for a new deprivation of liberty scheme by the end of 2016.
17 June, 2015
New research by Community care finds that councils have made just 1.6 per cent of court applications, needed to obtain legal authorisation for deprivations of liberty in community care placements, that they believe may be needed to comply with the Supreme Court's Cheshire West ruling.
17 June, 2015
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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
In new report, spending watchdog warns that the Department of Health's cost estimates and chosen funding mechanisms have put local authorities under increased financial risk given the uncertain level of demand for adult social care.
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