Social Services Inspectorate performance assessments

Community Care Market News (News) March 2004The Social Services Inspectorate (SSI) has set out how it intends to carry forward performance assessments in a...

Minister attacks free personal care

Community Care Market News (News) March 2004Scotland's policy of giving elderly people free personal care should end according to former Scottish Executive education minister...

Improvement board to direct Blaenau

Blaenau Gwent Council has asked for help from the Welsh Assembly Government's Improvement Board in order improve and stabilise its poorly performing social services....

Medway home care services streamlined

Medway Council is proposing to streamline its provision of home care services in order to improve their efficiency. The council claims that by reducing...

Audit Commission reports on independent living

Community Care Market News (News) March 2004The Audit Commission, together with Better Government for Older People, has published a series of reports examining the...

Support lacking for older blind

Community Care Market News (News) March 2004Older blind people are not receiving the support they are entitled to, according to a new report by...

Bury extends day care

Bury Council is to spend £100,000 modernising its Redcliffe Elderly Person's Home in order to provide extra daycare facilities for older people in the...

Leeds service set to improve

Most people in Leeds are served well by social services and prospects for services improving in the future are promising, according to a Joint...

Country Housing Association deal

Community Care Market News (News) March 2004Country Housing Association (CHA), the country house preservation charity, has advertised the sale of eight of its properties...

OFT publishes contracts guide

Community Care Market News (News) March 2004The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has published a guide to help privately funded residents secure fairer contract...