Archive for the ‘Care news’ Category

by Paul Roberts 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 tough [...]

CONSERVATIVE council leaders have broken ranks to condemn the ‘potentially devastating’ repercussions of the Coalition Government’s spending cuts. Warnings of serious consequences for frontline services over the next four years have emerged as the Tory chiefs join Liberal Democrat and Labour leaders in denouncing the ‘unfair’ cuts. More than 90 Lib Dem councillors, including the [...]

THE postcode lottery of care in Wales could be ended under radical plans announced by the country’s Deputy Minister for Social Services, Gwenda Thomas. About £1.4 billion a year is spent in the country on supporting 150,000 young, old and disabled people. Reforms, outlined in Sustainable Social Services for Wales: A Framework for Action include [...]

by Paul Roberts www.caringforyourbusiness.co.uk THE growing threat to Britain’s small businesses – including many under pressure social care companies – is revealed in alarming new statistics. The Federation of Small Businesses, the voice of more than 210,000 firms, warns that the rises in fuel and VAT are putting the future of many companies, particularly in [...]

The biggest shake-up of the National Health Service since it was founded in 1948 will have a significant impact on the future of social care in England. Paul Roberts looks at the implications of widespread change in the NHS TACKLING bureaucracy and inefficiencies in the NHS has proved a ‘graveyard’ for many a politician. Change [...]

by Paul Roberts www.caringforyourbusiness.co.uk WHY is it in 21st Century Britain that we seem totally incapable of dealing with snow? Just a few inches of the white stuff brings chaos to our roads, schools, airports and shops. Hundreds of thousands of people fail to turn up for work, costing our economy billions of pounds. People [...]

THE New Year could herald the greatest ever shake-up of long-term care in England and Scotland. Key recommendations on how social care for millions of elderly people in England should be funded are due to be unveiled in the summer of 2011. The proposals will be tabled by the Commission for the Funding of Care [...]

RADICAL plans to allow hundreds of thousands of people to take control of their care have been unveiled in England and Scotland. The schemes will accelerate the move towards person-centred care – and sound the death knell for controversial local authority ‘block’ care contracts. The Coalition Government has announced plans to put all one million [...]

SELF-EMPLOYED has almost become a dirty word – particularly among the so-called ‘high-flyers’ in the banking industry. If you run a small business and are looking for a loan, the chances are you will be turned down – because you don’t ‘tick’ all the bank boxes. Many banks are asking the seemingly impossible. For instance, [...]

by Paul Roberts AS THE UK faces unprecedented cuts in public spending, two key questions are being asked: Is it time for local authorities to focus on commissioning care, not providing it? And can cash-strapped Scotland afford to continue providing free personal care for the elderly? Many local authorities are looking to reduce their social [...]