CM Local Authorities

Southampton city council has been ordered to reimburse the family of an elderly woman who were wrongly charged top-up’ fees for residential care. The Local Government Ombudsman ruled that, in line with government guidance, because no accommodation was available at the council’s usual rate’, the local authority should have paid to accommodate the woman elsewhere and should not have sought additional fees beyond the assessed contribution.

Community Care Market News (News) May 2004 Supporting People funding could soon lose the protection it is currently given through ring-fencing according...

Investment in social care property is expected to gather momentum in 2012, as investors seek to increase their exposure to alternative’ property sectors with defensive attributes, according to a report from Knight Frank.

Community Care Market News (News) December 2001 The Scottish Executive has announced details of its national standards for care homes for older...

Community Care Market News (News) March 2001 The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Glasgow has denied claims that essential social care services had...

Community Care Market News (News) October 2001 Pay awards in the care sector are nudging ahead of local authority baseline fee increases...

Community Care Market News (News) June 2000 CCMN's annual survey of baseline fee rates paid by local authorities shows the huge diversity...

Communities Secretary Sajid Javid has announced that local authorities will be able to raise an extra £208m through the social care precept in 2017/18...

Care home interests in Birmingham have this month been scrutinising the Open Book Accounting 2 Report’ released by KPMG on 31 May, with its highly detailed analysis the actual cost of providing care home services for older people and younger adults in England’s second city. Based on a survey of care providers with a response rate varying from 25% to 32%, there are some interesting numbers, but no big surprises.

Figures from the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) show that almost all councils decided to introduce the social care precept last month. Of the 152 local authorities in England with adult social care responsibilities, 144 had utilised some or all of the 2% precept on council tax bills.