10 December, 2019
5 December, 2019
2 December, 2019
Expressing disappointment at care home's failure to respond positively to his investigation, Ombudsman shares his findings with the Care Quality Commission
25 November, 2019
Three point plan to solve social care crisis includes a guarantee that no one will need to sell their home in order to pay for residential social care
22 November, 2019
Party promises to introduce free social care at the point of need
21 November, 2019
Key pledges include free personal care for older people and a lifetime cap on personal contributions to care costs
20 November, 2019
19 November, 2019
Party pledges to spend additional £4.5 billion to fund free home care for all over 65s in England
12 November, 2019
'In the context of a growing gap between life expectancy and healthy life expectancy, we must broaden our ideas about what high-quality care consists of'
11 November, 2019
Even if current forecast funding is spent in full, spending per person will be 20 per cent lower in 2020/2021 than it was in 2009/2010
1 November, 2019
Case also highlights catalogue of other faults including inadequate and delayed assessment of care needs, a failure to address needs for short breaks and a failure to consider the woman's needs when her carers were away
24 October, 2019
Case highlights the dangers of using a box-ticking approach to assessing peoples’ eligibility for council services, says Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman,
22 October, 2019
Aburas, R. (on the application of) v London Borough of Southwark [2019] EWHC 2754 (Admin)
22 October, 2019
New statistics from NHS Digital report that this equates to an extra 195 requests per day over the last year
16 October, 2019
First Minister says new policy will be implemented over the next parliament if she is re-elected
15 October, 2019
Annual assessment of health and care quality highlights increasing number of care providers are choosing not to take on people funded by local authorities
14 October, 2019
‘Substantive proposals’ will be brought forward to fix the crisis in social care, says government
10 October, 2019
Ombudsman says the woman, who has autism, was left without proper support and the out of date plan was directly linked to the termination of care provision
9 October, 2019
New research shows that the majority of local authorities rely on a complaints process which can be unfit for purpose
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