Owner’s appeal succeeds
Community Care Market News (News) May 1998The owner of a residential home in Coventry has won her appeal to a registered homes tribunal after...
Call for end to inconsistency on standards
Community Care Market News (News) May 1998The Better Regulation Task Force, an independent advisory body set up by the Chancellor of the Duchy of...
Means test confusion leads to overpayment
Community Care Market News (News) May 1998A new report published by Joseph Rowntree Foundation has discovered that some older people are making a greater...
Independent sector provides 44% of local authority home care
Community Care Market News (News) May 1998Figures on community care in England published this month by the Department of Health in a statistical bulletin,...
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...
Promotion at Anchor
Anchor Trust has appointed Eddy Proctor as director of its residential and nursing care business, with effect from 1 April.Mr Proctor has worked with...
New chief inspector for Social Services Inspectorate
Denise Platt, currently head of social services at the Local Government Association, has been appointed chief inspector of the Social Services Inspectorate. She will...
Kent to introduce preferred provider lists
Kent county council is attempting to improve its social care purchasing function through the introduction of longer term contracts with a smaller group of...
ANS sale and leaseback
Last month, major sale and leaseback funds and others did not take seriously an offer from agents of Associated Nursing Services (ANS), to fund...