McCarthy & Stone Dunbar development

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Community Care Market News (News) October 2004Sheltered housing and extra care developer McCarthy & Stone is planning to demolish a former hotel as part...

Scottish direct payment stats

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Community Care Market News (News) October 2004The number of people receiving direct payments in Scotland increased from 534 in 2003 to 912 in 2004,...

Slow progress on continuing care refunds

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Community Care Market News (News) October 2004Fewer than one in five people who claimed that they were wrongly charged for continuing care are to...

CSCI clamps down on bad practice

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Community Care Market News (News) October 2004The Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) has warned care home providers that it is taking a tougher...

Council steps in to supervise Edinburgh death-probe home

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Community Care Market News (News) October 2004A senior official from Edinburgh City Council has been drafted in to supervise the management of a private...

Care associations poised for membership battle

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Community Care Market News (News) October 2004The English Community Care Association (ECCA), the care home representative organisation, has fired the opening shots in what...

Wales: Joint Working spending plans

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Community Care Market News (News) October 2004The Welsh Assembly has published its Joint Working Special Grants spending plans, setting out what it proposes to...

CSCI introduces fee refund policy

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Community Care Market News (News) October 2004Care home providers who decide to leave the industry will be able to claim a refund on their...

‘Poor’ services for disabled children

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Community Care Market News (News) October 2004Britain's 49,000 severely disabled children are receiving care that is 'often extremely poor'.Almost three times more is spent...

Caution urged over voluntary care regulations

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Community Care Market News (News) October 2004Voluntary social care organisations must not be unduly hampered by excessive regulations, an independent advisory body to the...
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