Older homeless people in Nottingham

Community Care Market News (News) June 2002Nottingham needs to offer more preventive and long term services for older people who live in rented accommodation...

Looked after children

Community Care Market News (News) June 2002National Statistics providing detailed figures on the number of children looked after by local authorities in England were...

More older people experiencing care rationing

Community Care Market News (News) June 2002Older people are facing increasing rationing of key services due to ten years of chronic underfunding in community...

Provider pressure forces up fee rates

Community Care Market News (News) June 2002Pressure from providers of nursing and residential care has forced many local authorities to make unprecedented increases to...

First social services star ratings published

Community Care Market News (News) June 2002Private sector consultants will be brought in to turn around some of the worst performing social services, the...

Four Seasons refused planning permission

Community Care Market News (News) June 2002Four Seasons Healthcare has been refused planning permission to build a two-storey intensive care unit for patients with...

Venture capital group funds MBO at CHOICE

Community Homes of Intensive Care and Education Ltd (CHOICE) has announced plans to double its capacity by 2006 following completion of a £20m management...

Home care

The Secretary of State for Health was asked (26 Mar 2002: Column: 937W) how many households, in each of the last five years for...

Further acquisition for Craegmoor

Craegmoor Healthcare has acquired a further care home in the Weston-Super-Mare area, adding accommodation for 12 adults with learning disabilities to its portfolio. The...

SCIE board appointments

The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) has announced the appointment of seven further board members. They are as follow:* Ratna Dutt, director, Race Equality...