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New directors for Croydon and Hillingdon
Hannah Miller has been appointed director of social services at Croydon council. She joins Croydon from the London borough of Islington where she was...
Kent invests in specialist care
Kent county council is to invest £350,000 in equipment for special care units at the council's day centres for people with learning disabilities. The...
Closure for Turning Point centre
Community Care Market News (News) June 1998Turning Point has announced the closure of its residential drug rehabilitation centre in Hackney, East London, due to...
Pressure mounts on fee levels
Community Care Market News (News) June 1998Nursing and residential home owners dependent on local authority referrals are facing the prospect of tighter control on...
Manchester Care & Tameside cut wages
Community Care Market News (News) June 1998Two organisations originally set up to operate local authority homes have been forced to draw up new contracts...
Research reveals £80m care gap
Community Care Market News (News) June 1998Research undertaken by Laing & Buisson and published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation shows that there are frequent...
Concern over ruling on top-ups
Community Care Market News (News) June 1998Social services directors and care home groups have warned of the considerable disruption and distress likely to be...
ICON to challenge LAs
Community Care Market News (News) June 1998The Independent Care Organisations Network (ICON) is collecting information on anti-competitive practices by local authorities which it will...
Scottish occupancy figures
Community Care Market News (News) June 1998Latest figures from the Scottish Office's Social Work Services Group show that occupancy rates had started to recover...
Residential care unpopular with users
Community Care Market News (News) June 1998A report published by Values into Action, The Cost of Opportunity, claims that people with learning disabilities do...
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