Doncaster introduces charges

Doncaster metropolitan borough council will introduce charges for the use of day centres by people with learning difficulties.The decision, which was ratified at a...

Home owners challenge local authority

Community Care Market News (News) March 1999The Local Government Ombudsman for Central England has recommended that Walsall metropolitan borough council pays compensation to a...

Research into Ageing investments

Community Care Market News (News) March 1999The charity Research into Ageing has announced its investment plans for the coming year. Around £200,000 is being...

Hackney restructures external home care

The London borough of Hackney is seeking to dramatically reduce the number of external agencies providing home care in the borough.The move follows an...

Essex acts to protect spending

Essex county council's community care sub-committee has proposed that any resources that are not spent this financial year on services for adults and older...

Gateshead seeks options for residential homes

Gateshead metropolitan borough council has this month unveiled plans to seek partners to improve facilities in all its 11 residential homes for older people...

Adolescent addiction treatment centre opens

Community Care Market News (News) March 1999Priory Healthcare has this month opened what it hails as 'the first truly comprehensive adolescent addiction treatment centre...

Kent cash boost

Kent social services has received an extra £1.4m to help give elderly people more choice in the type of care they receive. The extra...

Elderly residential care

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions was asked (Hansard 12 January 1999 at column 169) which local authorities were...

CNA to launch assessment campaign

Community Care Market News (News) February 1999The Carers National Association is launching an information campaign, due to commence in March 1999, which aims to...