A Guide for Local Authorities and Service Providers

This letter informs inspectors of the planned stress work in the public services sector for 2009-10. The work will focus on assessing the progress made by selected public sector organisations

This document summarises the responses to a consultation on draft regulations that would confer power on the Care Quality Commission for the purpose of monitoring, and reporting on, the Mental

The forms can be adapted but, if used in unedited form, they help all those involved in the safeguards processes to fully meet the requirements of the deprivation of liberty

This document assesses the impact of legislation to assist the Child Support Agency in securing child maintenance for 40,000 more children, which equates to an additional £70 million in child

This report examines the experiences of disabled parents and their families and considers how far council policies, services and practice are providing appropriate support.

This report publishes data showing that in the first term of the Every Child Counts programme, children have made an average of 12 months’ progress over three months with just

This report highlights key milestones in the history of the commission and describes its tasks of improving the quality of social care and influencing policy and practice to improve the

This report is the second in a series examining the role of volunteers and volunteering in public services. It highlights the valuable contribution that thousands of volunteers make to reducing