Bath reorganises in-house home care services

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Bath & North East Somerset (BANES) Council is to reorganise its in-house home care provision to cope with increased demand for its services. The...

Life Style Care to open home in Reading

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Life Style Care is set to open a new care home in Reading providing 137 nursing beds for older and physically frail people and...

Brent launches online help for older people

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Brent Council has introduced online forms to make social care services more accessible for people who cannot easily leave their homes or who may...

Criminal record checks

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Mark Oaten asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (22 Apr 2004 : Column 589W) how many applications for criminal records checks...

Care First Group increases profits and revenues

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Care First Group plc which consolidates care homes run by BUPA Care Homes, has issued a strong set of figures to Companies House for...

Oldham to sign £60m PFI contract for sheltered housing and extra care

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Oldham Council is set to announce a £60m PFI (private finance initiative) deal, which will lead to a major redevelopment of sheltered housing provision...

Care providers hit the rich list

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Community Care Market News (News) May 2004Care home operators have featured once again in The Sunday Times Rich List - the newspaper's annual survey...

Barclays supports Leonard Cheshire training programme

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Community Care Market News (News) May 2004Barclays has agreed to support a Leonard Cheshire volunteer training programme. The bank has donated £25,000 which will...

Practice Learning Taskforce extended

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Community Care Market News (News) May 2004Health minister Dr Stephen Ladyman has announced the extension of social work training group the Practice Learning Taskforce....

Independent sector provides 66% of local authority funded home care

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Community Care Market News (News) May 2004Independent sector providers have increased both the number and share of domiciliary care hours they provide under contract...
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