Care provider launches community style care development

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Community Care Market News (News) May 2004CLS Care Group, the non-profit operator of former local authority homes, has launched a £6m building plan to...

Workers to spend more time looking after parents than children

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Community Care Market News (News) May 2004Organising care for older parents will soon become a bigger work/life issue than arranging childcare, claims a new...

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...

ODPM to remove Supporting People ring-fence

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Community Care Market News (News) May 2004Supporting People funding could soon lose the protection it is currently given through ring-fencing according to Wendy Jarvis,...

Social services departments resist education merger

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Community Care Market News (News) May 2004The Association of Directors of Social Services (ADSS) has called for 'steady and responsible leadership' within social care...

Beacon Councils announced

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Community Care Market News (News) May 2004The government has announced 45 Beacon awards to local authorities at its fifth Annual Beacon Councils Awards Ceremony....

Care home numbers decrease in Scotland

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Community Care Market News (News) May 2004Registered care home places for older people in Scotland have decreased by less than 1% between 2002 and...
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