Wales set for first extra care scheme

Community Care Market News (News) October 2004Developers have completed work at what they claim to be the first extra care scheme in Wales.The scheme...

Round-up of selected new developments, openings and closures

Community Care Market News (News) October 2004Cornwall Care has added a specialist dementia wing to one of its eighteen homes. The Trevern Care Home...

£10m extra care scheme for Isle of Wight

Community Care Market News (News) October 2004Proposals have been put forward for a major nursing home and extra care scheme on the Isle of...

CSCI complaints procedure

Community Care Market News (News) October 2004Proposals for a new system for handling complaints about local council social services departments have been set out...

£5m north Yorkshire extra care scheme

Community Care Market News (News) October 2004The Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority has approved plans for a £5m extra care development in Wensleydale, north...

Scottish care home complaints

Community Care Market News (News) October 2004Almost 600 complaints against registered care services in Scotland were upheld in the past year, according to figures...

McCarthy & Stone Dunbar development

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

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

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

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