Southern Cross threatens to evict council-funded residents

Community Care Market News (News) August 2003Southern Cross is refusing to take council-funded clients at three of its four residential homes in Northamptonshire after...

Fremantle v Milton Keynes arbitration settled

Community Care Market News (News) August 2003The arbitrator has published his findings into the arbitration proceedings between Milton Keynes Council and care home provider...

Care homes exploit overseas nurses

Community Care Market News (News) August 2003Internationally recruited nurses working in UK care homes face racism and exploitation according to a new report from...

Proposed changes to care charges

Community Care Market News (News) August 2003A consultation paper, Proposed Changes to Residential Care Charges and Home Care Charges from 6 October 2003, has...

MP calls for care home rights

Community Care Market News (News) August 2003Liberal Democrat MP Paul Burstow has presented a Bill in the House of Commons to establish tenancy rights...

Care Homes Regulation amendment

Community Care Market News (News) August 2003The government has issued an ammendment to Care Homes Regulation 2001. Statutory Instrument 2003 No. 1703: The Care...

DoH Direct Payments

Community Care Market News (News) August 2003£4.5m has been allocated to 45 voluntary organisations in the first of the Department of Health's (DoH) Direct...

DoH guidance on delayed discharge fines

Community Care Market News (News) August 2003The Department of Health (DoH ) has issued new guidance on the Community Care Delayed Discharges etc. Act...

New Criminal Records Bureau Chief

Home Office minister Baroness Scotland has announced that Vince Gaskell, change director of the child support agency has been appointed chief executive director of...

Gloucester care home inquiry report due

The findings and recommendations of the inquiry into the death of Gloucestershire care home resident Violet Townsend will be presented to the Personal Care...