Government To Give Pensions Credits For Unpaid Social Care
People who cannot work because of their caring commitments will be given extra pensions credits to help them save for retirement, under government plans.
Read MorePeople who cannot work because of their caring commitments will be given extra pensions credits to help them save for retirement, under government plans.
Read More{mosimage}The Government is to help care providers stamp out abuse by workers by issuing an online step by step guide.
Speaking at the launch of the guide, Care Services Minister, Ivan Lewis, underlined social care providers’ statutory obligation to report incidents of abuse to the authorities.
He said: “Abuse of vulnerable adults in any form is intolerable. We are determined to stamp it out. This guidance will help care providers uncover abusers and help us ban them from the workplace. It is the latest in a series of measures we have introduced to help keep vulnerable adults safe.”
Read MoreThree months after being sacked, the workers who blew the whistle on the management of children’s homes in Wakefield are facing up to a tough struggle to see justice done.
Read MoreThousands of families may be forced to pay “top-up fees” for the care of elderly loved ones due to a multi-million-pound shortfall in government funding.
Read More{mosimage}The first commitment from the recent Our Health, Our Care, Our Say White Paper was delivered today when guidance on the new Director of Adult Social Services (DASS) role was issued by Ivan Lewis, Care Services Minister.
The new role will provide strengthened leadership, work on closer integration of health and social care as set out in the White Paper, and deliver strategic needs assessments. Best practice statutory guidance to help local authorities implement the new post has been sent to social services chief executives today.
Read MoreA multi-agency partnership is calling for an increase in appropriate housing to improve the health and wellbeing of older people in the South West of England.
Read MoreThe head of social services in Wiltshire, Dr Ray Jones, has quit his job, amid the Who pays for care?’ row between the county council and primary care trusts.
Read MoreDoctors in England are to get new guidelines telling them how to help patients tackle obesity head on. GPs will have to treat obesity as if it were any other medical condition and advise overweight patients to slim under the new government guidelines.
Read MoreOn June 13, 2002, 108-year-old Alice Knight finally starved herself to death. It was her protest, a protest against being moved from the care home she loved to one she did not recognise.
Read MoreThe Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) has launched new guidance outlining ways that social care organisations can ensure significant participation of children and young people in developing and improving their services.
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