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Adult social care funding: a local or national responsibility?
26 March 2018 | News
This new Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) report argues that ... finance risk a growing funding gap for adult social care and conflict with efforts to provide consistent and high-quality care services across the country. Read ...
Visits to care homes allowed under new guidance
03 December 2020 | News
... been allowed to recommence from Wednesday 2 December providing that visitors can produce a negative rapid Covid test in advance of the visit. Visits to family homes and parks may also now be possible for some care home ... changes apply to care home residents in all tiers. Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock said: “The ...
Consultation on habitual residence changes
07 April 2014 | News
Formal consultation and a call for evidence: The Housing Benefit (Habitual Residence) Amendment Regulations 2014. The above regulations, which had been made on 5 March and laid in Parliament using urgency procedures were ...
New guidance on personal budget payment cards
23 June 2019 | News
... says pre-payment cards should never be the only option The Independent Living Strategy Group, In Control and Think Local Act Personal (TLAP), have published a ... local authorities as a means of managing a personal budget and follows research undertaken by the Independent Living ...
Tax Free Childcare consultation
04 August 2013 | News
This consultation seeks views on the government’s plans to introduce Tax-Free Childcare for working families and additional assistance with childcare for parents through ... interested parties to comment on the detailed design and operation of Tax-Free Childcare. It sets out the ...
House of Lords vote to criminalise domestic abuse by carers
10 March 2021 | News
Following an amazing debate initiated by Baroness Jane Campbell, ... of the Domestic Abuse Bill. The vote was 318 in favour and 234 against. Unfortunately, the Government continues to ... close personal connection with individual disabled people and their position of power. Baroness Campbell made a ...
DWP release benefit death peer reviews
15 May 2016 | News
Peer reviews indicate the need for better, more sensitive, handing of ... reviews do not establish a direct link between these deaths and the benefits claimed but many highlight flaws in the ...
DWP accused of blocking claimant suicide research
02 March 2022 | News
The DWP has faced repeated criticisms that it is blocking or burying politically unpalatable research by the ... whether benefit sanctions are linked to mental illness and suicide, increasing costs to the NHS, has been stopped and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been ...
Sacked mother of Disabled children wins tribunal
23 June 2021 | News
... nurse who was fired from her job as a nurse for not agreeing to work weekends has won a “landmark” ruling for working mothers after a judge said ... at an employment tribunal citing unfair dismissal and indirect sex discrimination. She has won an appeal ...
2019 LeDeR report is published
19 July 2020 | News
The latest version of the Learning Disabilities Mortality Review (LeDeR) report, covering ... by the University of Bristol. It makes for somber reading, and highlights the many health inequalities faced by people ... who died in 2019 died from an avoidable medical cause, and were twice as likely to as people in the general ...