Care UK contracts update
Community Care Market News (News) May 1998Care UK has signed its PFI contract with Westminster city council for the provision of a 110-bed nursing...
Quality awards for social services departments
Nottinghamshire social services has been awarded Investors in People accreditation. The department, which employs around 8000 people, met the required standards after an external...
Statistics on social services staff published
Statistics from the annual September census of the staff of social service departments in England have been published by the Department of Health (DoH).The...
Review calls on Bury to address its weaknesses
The Audit Commission and Social Services Inspectorate (SSI) joint review of Bury's social services department has concluded that a number of people within Bury...
Amendments to CRAG
The Department of Health has published local authority circular (LAC(98)8) which outlines amendments to the charging assessment rules local authorities apply in respect of...
General Social Care Council
The Secretary of State for Health was asked (Hansard 11 March 1998 at column 236) if the government will include proposals for a national...
Direct payments
The Secretary of State for Health was asked (Hansard 23 March 1998 at column 46) what evaluation has been made of the scope for...
Scottish LAs receive Care and Repair funding
£5m will be distributed to Scottish local authorities to help older people repair or adapt their homes, Scottish Housing Minister, Calum MacDonald MP has...
Tenants vote in favour of transfer
600 tenants of the London borough of Redbridge's sheltered housing schemes have voted in favour of the transfer of their homes to three housing...
Tamaris – what next?
An interesting turn of events at Tamaris plc this month. Roseview International Ltd, the Singapore investor that earlier this year subscribed for 200 million...
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