23 October, 2013
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
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.
26 September, 2013
Coming into effect from November 2013, the framework brings together into one inspection: child protection; services for looked after children and care leavers; and local authority fostering and adoption services.
20 September, 2013
Plans aimed at removing the barriers facing disabled people in Wales have been unveiled by the Welsh Government.
19 September, 2013
New provisional data from Health, Social Care and Information Centre shows that local authorities across England spent £17.1bn on adult social care in 2012-2013 as compared to £17.2bn in 2011-2012.
19 September, 2013
New Department of Health guidance setting out adults’ personal social services specific revenue and capital grant funding for local authorities for 2013 to 2014.
17 September, 2013
Care Quality Commission comments on findings of survey of 13,000 people revealing that 'too many people who use community mental health services are not being involved in decisions about their own care'.
13 September, 2013
New rules will allow certain local authorities to provide direct payments for residential care beyond the current restrictions which mean that they can't be used for residential accommodation for more than four consecutive weeks in any 12 month period.
12 September, 2013
New Health and Social Care Information Centre figures show that, in 2012-2013, a total of 173,000 safeguarding alerts and 112,000 safeguarding referrals were reported for vulnerable adults aged 18 and over in England.
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