11 November, 2013
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'.
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
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.
16 October, 2013
New framework - for use by health and social care staff, as well as wider teams and organisations - created by nurses and care staff to compare current dementia care with the best practice criteria.
15 October, 2013
Care Quality Commission's new chief inspector of social care Andrea Sutcliffe also says that it will monitor the finances of 50 / 60 care providers that would be difficult to replace if they were to go out of business.
9 October, 2013
Measures include allocation of £50m to establish new Intermediate Care Fund (designed to allow care recipients to remain in their own homes), continuation of universal benefits like free prescriptions and free school breakfasts and £12.5m to fund job opportunities for young people.
8 October, 2013
New report warns that the way care is currently commissioned is unsustainable, leading to inadequate pay, poor working conditions for care workers and increasing threats to older people's human rights.
8 October, 2013
Today's Written Ministerial Statement from Secretary of State for Education sets out changes to Children and Families Bill including that right to assessment of needs for support will be extended to all carers under the age of 18.
8 October, 2013
Local Government Ombudsman also finds that Council had failed to act on its earlier recommendation to carry out comprehensive reassessment of son who is 50 and has Asperger Syndrome and mental health problems.
7 October, 2013
'Unless local government finance is put on a sustainable footing, social care will remain substantially underfunded and services will suffer as a result', says Chair of the LGA's Community Wellbeing Board.
7 October, 2013
New report by Leonard Cheshire Disability also highlights that over the past five years the proportion of visits of 15 minutes or less has risen by 15 per cent.
30 September, 2013
Welsh Government is seeking views on its proposals to introduce an outcomes based inspection regime, a service based regulatory regime and a national institute of care and support.
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