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The Local Government Association (LGA) has expressed concerns about the amount of funding available to ensure young adults can stay with their foster families for longer.

Eleven former staff from Winterbourne View private hospital were sentenced last month for their part in the abuse and neglect that took place at the hospital for adults with severe learning disabilities.

Community Care Market News (News) July 2004 Health minister Stephen Ladyman stepped up the pressure on local authorities to cut delayed discharge...

Community Care Market News (News) November 2000 The Commission for Health Improvement (CHI) has published a report on its first two investigations....

Community Care Market News (News) November 2003 The Department of Health (DoH) has launched a national consultation on choice, responsiveness and equity...

Government watchdog the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published a further 36 inspection reports for services for people with learning disabilities. In its latest tranche of unannounced inspections, prompted by the fallout from the Winterbourne View scandal, which included 18 adult social care facilities, three were found to have major concerns over care and welfare of service users and two had major concerns about safeguarding adults from abuse.

In response to the conviction of gangs of men sexually abusing children from residential care homes, children’s minister Tim Loughton announced a series of reforms earlier this month to prevent it from happening again. Local authorities will now have to carry out more checks before children are placed in homes outside their home boroughs. Currently around half of the estimated 7,800 children put into residential care are placed outside their homes.

Community Care Market News (News) March 1999 Priory Healthcare has this month opened what it hails as 'the first truly comprehensive adolescent...

Community Care Market News (News) August 2001 The Department of Health has published a consultation on the scale of fees to be...

Operations director for Cygnet Supported Living, Bronwen Corby discusses the importance of their launch in Harrow.