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 [...]
With social care on the brink of unprecedented change in 2011, conferences will focus on the opportunities and threats facing social care providers over the next 12 months. March 3 2011 Skills for Care Annual Conference (Surviving and thriving…developing your workforce to meet today’s business challenges) Venue: The International Conference Centre, Telford Details: Speakers will [...]
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 [...]
Many people in Britain are more afraid of dementia than cancer, heart attacks or death, according to a survey carried out by the Alzheimer’s Research Trust. Sir Terry Pratchett, patron of the charity, has now called for dementia to be given the same level of public attention as that given to Aids in the 1980s. [...]
A new scheme to help small companies, charities and voluntary organisations compete for billions of pounds worth of contracts has been unveiled by the Coalition Government. It has announced a number of key measures to prevent small business owners and organisations being shut out of procurement processes because of excessive bureaucracy and petty regulation. They [...]
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 Jenny Roberts Caring for your Business is often asked by care providers to identify opportunities to develop their business. Anyone in the home care sector who watched the Channel 4 Dispatches programme Secret NHS Diaries would have seen three people experiencing their final journey in life in three different settings – a hospital, in [...]
By Jenny Roberts Channel 4’s Dispatches special – Secret NHS Diaries, February 28 – made very uncomfortable viewing on so many levels. The programme followed three people who were on their final journey in life. Each one was experiencing their last days in different environments: a hospital, in their own home and in a residential [...]
It’s interesting to note that a new scheme to achieve excellence in social care – announced by the Care Quality Commission today – will not be compulsory. The Coalition Government is considering introducing ‘payment by results’ in its Vision for Adult Care to reward the very best in care services. In other words, those providing excellent [...]
By Paul Roberts There are justifiable fears over the future of the personalisation of care in England with councils cutting social care budgets to the bone. The Coalition Government plans to put one million eligible service users on Personal Budgets by 2013 as part of its Vision for Adult Care. But with many local authorities [...]
