Age Concern highlights benefits take-up

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Community Care Market News (News) April 1998Age Concern is running a freephone line to advise pensioners on their entitlement to benefits during Your Rights...

Pilot projects aim to give older people to get more say in local services

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Community Care Market News (News) April 1998Local pilot projects to improve public services for older people and to give them more say in how...

Social Services directors issue warning over cuts

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Community Care Market News (News) March 1998Social services directors in the Thames and Anglia region have issued a warning that continued demand for social...

Croydon looks to control expansion of care home market

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Croydon council has introduced new supplementary planning guidance in an attempt to control the number of new residential and nursing homes opening in the...

Drug and alcohol grants

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Community Care Market News (News) March 1998The Department of Health (DoH) has issued a Local Authority Circular (LAC(98)6) which sets out the arrangements for...

Hertfordshire considers options for remaining homes

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Hertfordshire County Council is considering the transfer of its four remaining residential homes for elderly people. The council has produced a market assessment questionnaire,...

EAT makes decision on Cornwall Care

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Community Care Market News (News) March 1998The Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) has delivered its judgment in the case of Cornwall Care ruling that although...

Health Committee hears evidence on prevalence of Berlin Walls

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Community Care Market News (News) March 1998The Health Committee has this month heard evidence from the Department of Health (DoH), the Association of Directors...

Norfolk looks for savings in home care

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Norfolk county council is hoping to save £750,000 per annum by diverting new clients to the independent sector.The council currently employs 43 home care...

Debate of the Age launched

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Community Care Market News (News) March 1998Age Concern is coordinating the largest public consultation initiative ever undertaken in Britain, entitled The Millennium Debate of...
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