6 December, 2013
4 December, 2013
Children and Families Minister has announced that a new legal duty will be imposed on local authorities to provide financial support for every young person who wants to stay with their foster parents after they turn 18.
2 December, 2013
Government says it shares reviewer's conclusion that single public services ombudsman for England should be created and that it intends to 'develop and test ideas for how such a 1-stop-shop service might operate'.
2 December, 2013
New IPPR report sets out broad themes on 'creating a health and care system that is fit for the future'.
2 December, 2013
Guardian reports on figures revealed by freedom of information requests.
29 November, 2013
Welsh Government is seeking views on its proposals to improve the way complaints and concerns about social services are dealt with.
29 November, 2013
27 November, 2013
Local Government Ombudsman report found that family's request for extra support was turned down because Calderdale Council never completed a core assessment of their child's needs.
25 November, 2013
Association of Directors of Adult Social Services says that the reforms will incentivise many more self-funders to approach their council and 'low-level' assessments may have to be outsourced.
21 November, 2013
Peter Tyndall tells BBC Wales that the system for the delivery of health and social care outside hospital is too complex and needs one body to manage services.
19 November, 2013
Local Government Ombudsman finds that when Cambridge County Council reviewed its resources assessment - following the Ombudsman’s intervention - it established that the boy would need support costing more than double the amount it initially offered his family.
14 November, 2013
10,000 older people to be helped with tailored advice and practical support through new services, adding to 20,000 assisted last year.
11 November, 2013
Launched today by the Department of Health, the website will show how carers and people receiving local authority funded care and support rate factors such as quality of their life, satisfaction with care services and feeling safe, and will enable people to compare their council’s performance against others.
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
New King's Fund report looks at the key components of effective strategies employed by studying five UK-based programmes to deliver co-ordinated health and social care for people with long-term and complex needs.
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