DGAA home opens

Community Care Market News (News) May 1998DGAA Homelife has opened The Cotswold Home, its 14th nursing and residential home. The home comprises 51 beds...

Partnership must be way forward

Community Care Market News (News) May 1998Speaking at Laing & Buisson's conference on inter agency collaboration last month, Under Secretary of State for Health...

Owners ruled unfit

Community Care Market News (News) May 1998The owners of a dual registered home in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire have been ruled unfit following a registered...

CCC updates residential contract

Community Care Market News (News) May 1998The Continuing Care Conference (CCC) has published the second edition of its framework contract between residential care providers...

Former factory too large for registration

Community Care Market News (News) May 1998A registered homes tribunal has ruled that proposals to register a former factory as a residential home by...

Local authority can take property into account

Community Care Market News (News) May 1998South Lanarkshire council has won a judicial review which questioned its decision to charge an elderly woman for...

Registration cancelled

Community Care Market News (News) May 1998The owner of two nursing homes in Staffordshire has lost his appeal to a registered homes tribunal and...

Amendments to CRAG

The Department of Health has published local authority circular (LAC(98)8) which outlines amendments to the charging assessment rules local authorities apply in respect of...

Tenants vote in favour of transfer

600 tenants of the London borough of Redbridge's sheltered housing schemes have voted in favour of the transfer of their homes to three housing...

Tamaris – what next?

An interesting turn of events at Tamaris plc this month. Roseview International Ltd, the Singapore investor that earlier this year subscribed for 200 million...