CM Local Authorities

Community Care Market News (News) August 2000 Following Labour's second Comprehensive Spending Review completed in July this year, Personal Social Services in...

Community Care Market News (News) October 2004 The Welsh Assembly has published guidance designed to assist local authorities in making direct payments....

A consultation to reconfigure the way in which non-residential care support services are provided and charged for has been launched by Leicester city council. Pitched as part of the national move toward giving people more choice and control over the services they use, the three month exercise is in fact a prelude to raising charges and will gather feedback on proposals likely to result in the introduction of new charges and removal of existing total fee caps.

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.

A five-year commitment to transform health and social care funding is urgently needed to avoid the care system spiralling towards a deeper crisis, council leaders warned last month.

Community Care Market News (News) February 2002 The Department of Health (DoH) has issued local authorities with guidance for the implementation of...

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has pledged to put failing care homes back into public ownership if the party came into power. In a speech...

The Department of Health (DH) has given local authorities a £150m New Year present to solve the current bed blocking crisis.

The Scottish government has published a new Bill that will see an increase in the amount of domiciliary care provided, as well as see the integration of health and social care budgets across the country, blazing a trail that has yet to be followed in England where it is still up to local agencies how fast they push forward the integration agenda (CCMn April 2013). The Bill also contains measures to reduce the number of delayed discharges in the country. Health Secretary Alex Neil said: People in Scotland are living longer, healthier lives – which is good news. But it also means that services need to adapt in order to meet the challenges of a rapidly ageing population.

In Northern Ireland, 11 care homes are being considered for closure as its five health trusts look at alternative types of accommodation for older people in the province.