National Lottery Charities Board invites applications

Community Care Market News (News) May 1998The National Lottery Charities Board is inviting applications for funding from charities and voluntary organisations wishing to undertake...

Dementia care case-studies sought

Community Care Market News (News) May 1998The Housing Associations Charitable Trust (HACT) and the Home Group are looking for case-studies to take part in...

ABI opposed to compulsory insurance

Community Care Market News (News) May 1998The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has concluded that compulsory insurance as a solution to the problem of...

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...

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...

Independent sector provides 44% of local authority home care

Community Care Market News (News) May 1998Figures on community care in England published this month by the Department of Health in a statistical bulletin,...

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...

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...