Former factory too large for registration

Community Care Market News (News) May 1998A registered homes tribunal has ruled that proposals to register a former factory as a residential home by...

Registration cancelled

Community Care Market News (News) May 1998The owner of two nursing homes in Staffordshire has lost his appeal to a registered homes tribunal and...

Owner’s appeal succeeds

Community Care Market News (News) May 1998The owner of a residential home in Coventry has won her appeal to a registered homes tribunal after...

Call for end to inconsistency on standards

Community Care Market News (News) May 1998The Better Regulation Task Force, an independent advisory body set up by the Chancellor of the Duchy of...

Means test confusion leads to overpayment

Community Care Market News (News) May 1998A new report published by Joseph Rowntree Foundation has discovered that some older people are making a greater...

Independent sector provides 44% of local authority home care

Community Care Market News (News) May 1998Figures on community care in England published this month by the Department of Health in a statistical bulletin,...

Vulnerable people deserve a better deal say Audit Commission

Community Care Market News (News) May 1998Housing authorities are struggling to cope with changing and rising demand, according to a report published this month...

Partnership must be way forward

Community Care Market News (News) May 1998Speaking at Laing & Buisson's conference on inter agency collaboration last month, Under Secretary of State for Health...

Royal Commission submissions

Community Care Market News (News) May 1998A number of organisations have this month published their submissions to the Royal Commission on the Long Term...

CCC updates residential contract

Community Care Market News (News) May 1998The Continuing Care Conference (CCC) has published the second edition of its framework contract between residential care providers...