CM Local Authorities

Community Care Market News (News) November 2003 A new government strategy document has warned that government training targets designed to improve recruitment...

Public resistance to proposals from Suffolk council which had sought to either sell off or considerably reduce use of 16 in-house residential care homes has forced the authority to rethink a strategy under which it had hoped to shave around £3-4m per year from its adult social care spend. Meanwhile on a larger scale, however, the resignation of council leader Jeremy Pembroke last month has put on hold the authority’s controversial plans to reinvent itself as a commissioner and not provider of almost all its state services (CCMN November 2010).

The Welsh government published a consultation on proposals last month to help people with neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s disease get the care they need.

Community Care Market News (News) December 1997 A study undertaken by the Personal Social Services Unit (PSSRU) at the University of Manchester...

Community Care Market News (News) August 1998 The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has put its support behind calls on the government...

Community Care Market News (News) July 1999 This year's edition of Laing & Buisson's Care of Elderly People: Market Survey, gives little...

Community Care Market News (News) October 1998 The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) has published a guide for charities which sets...

Community Care Market News (News) April 2002 Health Minister Jacqui Smith has been accused of denigrating the independent care home sector by...

Community Care Market News (News) December 2002 The prospects for longer term stability of the care home sector remain uncertain, according the...

Six care homes owned and operated by Nottinghamshire council will transfer to private provider Runwood Homes by early 2012 under plans made public last month.