27 March, 2015
26 March, 2015
New regulations that remove a number of historic instruments relating to public health and the National Health Service, which are no longer applicable.
26 March, 2015
New regulations that remove a number of historic instruments relating to health and social care and the National Health Service, which are no longer applicable.
26 March, 2015
New briefing note highlights that asylum seekers who are destitute can apply to UK Visas and Immigration for accommodation and/or financial support but also points out that local authorities are responsible for providing support to unaccompanied asylum seeking children.
25 March, 2015
Continued investment in Voluntary Sector Development Fund to benefit around 800 employees in 74 care charities across Scotland.
25 March, 2015
Department of Health confirms that all new healthcare assistants and social care support workers will need to get a Care Certificate in their first 12 weeks of employment.
24 March, 2015
24 March, 2015
Findings of new Scottish Government report include that 759,000 people are caring, with around 171,000 providing more than 35 hours of care a week, and that there are around 29,000 young carers aged under 16 - four per cent of that age group.
24 March, 2015
New report finds that employers, health and social care services, central, national and local government and local voluntary and charity organisations all have a role to play in improving public understanding of caring and disability and raise awareness of carers in the workplace.
24 March, 2015
New analysis shows that, of every £1 of council tax collected by councils in 2019/2020, 60p will be spent on caring for the elderly, vulnerable adults, and vulnerable children, up from 41p in 2010/2011.
24 March, 2015
Communities Secretary sets out details of its replacement by 'a new, leaner, framework which, whilst it retains the knowledge and expertise of the commission where it has value, will create more freedom and flexibility for local public bodies, replacing top-down inspection with local accountability'.
19 March, 2015
New investment to extend the current Integrated Care Fund into 2016/2017 and 2017/2018.
16 March, 2015
Document presents the outcome of the government’s consultation on the draft Young Carers’ (Needs Assessments) (England) Regulations that are intended to improve how young carers and their families are identified and supported.
16 March, 2015
High quality end of life care should be available to everyone regardless of their age, medical condition or where they live, says Committee Chair.
16 March, 2015
Following a consultation on options to provide ILF support after closure of the scheme on 30 June 2015, the Welsh Government has decided to set up a special grant scheme, administered by local authorities, to pay existing ILF recipients their current level of funding.
13 March, 2015
New publication from the Chartered Institute of Housing gives information and guidance to housing organisations on adult safeguarding which becomes a statutory duty for local authorities from April 2015 under the Care Act 2014.
13 March, 2015
Poll of GPs carried out by Care and Support Alliance finds that cuts to social care have directly led to extra pressure on primary care as well as huge challenges for hospitals.
12 March, 2015
Knowledge and skills statement, published with response, sets out for the first time, what governments expects a social worker with adults to know and be able to do after their first year in employment.
11 March, 2015
New statutory instrument provides for Part 1 and Chapter 2 of Part 3 of the Care Act 2014 in their application to the Isles of Scilly, to have effect with a specified modification and also amends the Isles of Scilly (Community Care) Order 1993.
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