Providing better outcomes for older people in a new era of austerity is one of the great challenges facing social care businesses in the years ahead. Jennifer Roberts looks at potential ways forward for independent providers in the latest Caring for your Business newsletter. The newsletter, published monthly, also looks at: How cuts are ‘killing’ [...]
Providing better outcomes for older people in a new era of austerity is one of the great challenges facing social care businesses in the years ahead. Jennifer Roberts looks at potential ways forward for independent providers THERE’S no doubt about it. Social care providers are entering a period of great uncertainty – perhaps the most [...]
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 Jennifer Roberts www.caringforyourbusiness.co.uk IT WOULD appear that everywhere we look a transformation of one kind or another is taking place. Change can be positive and sometimes very necessary to help us improve, achieve and become creative. But it can also make us feel insecure and uncomfortable whilst we try to make sense of 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 Jennifer Roberts www.caringforyourbusiness.co.uk AS local authorities juggle their budgets in the aftermath of the Spending Review, there will be opportunities for Britain’s home care providers to grow their business. In the light of changes that will be happening across the UK, it is worth looking at some of the opportunities that are likely to [...]
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 [...]
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