Archive for the ‘Care news’ Category

By Paul Roberts www.caringforyourbusiness.co.uk ON THE eve of the publication of the blueprint for care funding, a Department of Health spokesman told me there are two ‘phrases to be feared’ in unveiling important new reports – that the documents are ‘immensely valuable’ and merit ‘careful consideration’. In his opinion – and experience – they prove [...]

by Paul Roberts www.caringforyourbusiness.co.uk IT’S taken two disasters in a week – but the penny has finally dropped. Britain is in the grip of its worst ever care crisis and everyone knows it. Panorama’s graphic video footage of staff bullying and abusing young people with learning disabilities at a private residential hospital shocked us all. [...]

By Paul Roberts www.caringforyourbusiness.co.uk AN IMPORTANT ruling on an ill-fated attempt to impose sweeping social care cuts in Birmingham is not only a victory for common sense – but a warning to local authorities across Britain not to put our most vulnerable people at risk. A judge has confirmed an interim judgment made in April [...]

by Paul Roberts www.caringforyourbusiness.co.uk WHEN you hear a government official saying that ‘job satisfaction is more important than pay’ you know there is always a significant sting in the tail. It is a shocking fact that almost one in ten social care workers are paid below the minimum wage of £5.93 an hour in Britain. [...]

By Paul Roberts This year heralds the dawn of a new era of critical change for health and social care in Britain. The first steps towards achieving the most important reforms for more than 60 years will be taken in the next few months. This is a watershed for us all – an opportunity to [...]

by Paul Roberts www.caringforyourbusiness.co.uk WHEN my mum was in her late 70s she gave up many hours of her time to look after elderly neighbours, most of whom were younger than her. Living in a remote village in North Devon, she did their shopping, washed and ironed clothes, washed and put away dishes and cleaned [...]

by Paul Roberts www.caringforyourbusiness.co.uk THE ‘DRASTIC’ spending cuts are destroying the personalisation of care services, the Coalition Government has been warned. There is growing evidence that the most vulnerable elderly and disabled are being ‘targeted’ as the cutbacks begin to bite. Dr Simon Duffy, who runs the Centre for Welfare Reform, has warned in a [...]

DEMAND for person-centred support is outstripping supply, reveals a major new report by the Care Quality Commission. More people are being given access to personalised services through the expansion of direct payments and personal budgets. But, say the CQC in its report on the State of health care and adult social care in England, the [...]

By Paul Roberts www.caringforyourbusiness.co.uk WHEN the Commission on Funding Care and Support was established, the chairman said it would carefully consider ‘all options’ for future funding of long term care. Cynics – including myself – believed that the Tories’ preferred voluntary insurance option would be recommended by the Commission. Having rejected compulsory insurance as an [...]

by Paul Roberts www.caringforyourbusiness.co.uk When the Coalition Government unveiled its Vision for Adult Social Care in November last year, it claimed that the spending review settlement for local authorities gave them a ‘solid basis to reform social care services’, and ‘rise to the new opportunities’ to accelerate change and ‘show the leadership needed to make [...]