26 October, 2012
26 October, 2012
Care Services Minister agrees new target of having 70 per cent of users on personal budgets by April 2013, following talks with the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, reports communitycare.co.uk.
26 October, 2012
New resource is designed to make it easier for health and social care professionals involved in hospital discharge to support older patients in returning home safely after a hospital stay and reduce the risk of readmission to hospital.
25 October, 2012
Department of Health publishes revisions to the Fairer Charging guidance that take account of a change to the use of Guaranteed Income Payments paid under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme.
25 October, 2012
New regulations bring into force provisions of Health and Social Care Act 2012 from 1 November 2012.
25 October, 2012
'Show Us You Care' campaign calls for more funding as money available for council services across England and Wales by 2020 will have shrunk by 90 per cent in cash terms.
25 October, 2012
25 October, 2012
Government announces funding up to £50m for NHS trusts and local authorities to help tailor hospitals and care homes to the needs of people with dementia.
23 October, 2012
Charity launches Find Me Good Care website that combines advice and information about choosing care with a comparable database of services.
22 October, 2012
Government publishes response to consultation that sought views on the proposed regulations to enable the delivery of the Right to Control Trailblazers from December 2012.
17 October, 2012
New Family and Parenting Institue report shows that local authorities are focusing on crisis interventions at the expense of family support, early years projects and youth centres.
16 October, 2012
New charter sets out a commitment to work more effectively together to ensure people are fully supported to report concerns and safety issues, and are treated fairly and with empathy, when they have been involved in an incident or have raised a concern, says Care Quality Commission.
16 October, 2012
Leading charities including Scope, The National Autistic Society, Sense, 4Children and The Family and Parenting Institute claim that changes in the Children and Families Bill could fail to improve the lives of families that have disabled children.
15 October, 2012
College of Social Work survey shows support for a new power of entry to enable a local authority to speak face-to-face to someone who they think could be at risk of abuse and neglect, if a third party prevented them from doing so.
10 October, 2012
The Welsh Government launches 12-week consultation into new scheme which will offer eligible children the opportunity to stay with their foster carers beyond the age of 18.
8 October, 2012
Social Care Institute for Excellence launches online resource to help staff in carrying out their responsibilities to safeguard adults at risk.
3 October, 2012
Issue 22 of Department of Health's Social Care bulletin is now available.
1 October, 2012
From April 2013, NICE to be charged with developing better evidence on what high-quality care looks like with the aim of improving the quality of social care.
28 September, 2012
Respondents asked to comment on fees the Commission proposes to to charge health and social care services that are registering with it.
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