11 March, 2015
11 March, 2015
New figures released by Age UK show that, over the past 10 years, spending on social care services for older people has fallen by 34.2 per cent, and as a result, frail older people are without the help they need to stay well at home and end up having to go A&E, while others find themselves stranded in hospital because there aren’t enough social care and community health services to allow them to be safely discharged.
10 March, 2015
Views sought, by 29 May 2015, on measures designed to strengthen rights of people with learning disabilities, autism and mental health issues to enable them to live independently.
10 March, 2015
New Bill will entitle every adult carer in Scotland to their own support plan, with young carers receiving a similar young carer statement.
9 March, 2015
Funding will both keep refuges open, and improve standards in existing refuges, says DCLG.
9 March, 2015
New statutory instrument make provision about how the local authority must carry out duty under section 17ZB of the Children Act 1989 to assess whether young carers in their area have needs for support and, if so, to assess what those needs are.
9 March, 2015
6 March, 2015
Finding from new election briefing from Institute for Fiscal Studies which also shows that the sharpest cuts to local government spending have been in poorer areas, with those areas to lose the most over the next few years.
4 March, 2015
New Local Authority Circular also gives advice on how local authorities might think about using the additional £146 million of funding provided from April 2015 to plan and prepare for the final set of changes to fully implement the Care Act.
4 March, 2015
[2015] EWHC 482 (Admin)
4 March, 2015
New report from the United Kindgom Homecare Association - which recommends a minimum price for homecare of £15.74 per hour - finds that the average price paid by councils to their independent and voluntary sector homecare providers ranged from £11.35 per hour in Northern Ireland to £14.28 per hour in Wales.
3 March, 2015
New statutory instrument commences provisions relating to requirement that Privy Council impose on the regulatory bodies overseen by the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care such periodic fees as the Privy Council determines in accordance with new section 25A of the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002.
27 February, 2015
Warning from National Housing Federation, who estimate that over 100,000 extra homes for older people will be needed in the housing association sector alone in the next 15 years.
27 February, 2015
Package of funding is in addition to the £20m the Minister has already announced for the Intermediate Care Fund in 2015/2016, and the additional £10m being made available to local government to fund social services through the Revenue Support Grant.
26 February, 2015
In its report published today, the Public Accounts Committee makes a number of recommendations including that the Departments should set out the specific responsibilities and accountabilities for the Fund of all local and national partners, and should publish an annual scorecard to demonstrate the extent to which the Fund is supporting integration, maintaining adult social care, reducing emergency admissions and saving money.
25 February, 2015
Care and Support Minister Norman Lamb says, 'We know the 100 care companies being investigated are just the tip of the iceberg in the care sector and are absolutely committed to getting back the wages people have worked so hard for.'
25 February, 2015
Bill, which aims to introduce a revised and streamlined legal framework for the regulation and inspection of care and support in Wales and to ensure that no service escapes the regulatory regime, will be implemented in 2017 if passed.
24 February, 2015
[2015] EWHC 403 (QB)
24 February, 2015
New report from Royal Voluntary Service also finds that, despite recent funding injections for some local authorities, around 40 per cent of older patients are medically fit for discharge but remain in hospital because there is no post-hospital support in place.
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