Guide to registered homes published

Community Care Market News (News) May 1998Paul Ridout, solicitor with Dibb Lupton Alsop and a member of CCMN's editorial board, has this month published...

Care UK contracts update

Community Care Market News (News) May 1998Care UK has signed its PFI contract with Westminster city council for the provision of a 110-bed nursing...

Call for end to inconsistency on standards

Community Care Market News (News) May 1998The Better Regulation Task Force, an independent advisory body set up by the Chancellor of the Duchy of...

Review calls on Bury to address its weaknesses

The Audit Commission and Social Services Inspectorate (SSI) joint review of Bury's social services department has concluded that a number of people within Bury...

General Social Care Council

The Secretary of State for Health was asked (Hansard 11 March 1998 at column 236) if the government will include proposals for a national...

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...

Quality awards for social services departments

Nottinghamshire social services has been awarded Investors in People accreditation. The department, which employs around 8000 people, met the required standards after an external...

Statistics on social services staff published

Statistics from the annual September census of the staff of social service departments in England have been published by the Department of Health (DoH).The...