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Help Shape Your Local Health and Social Care: Your guide to local involvement networks
Care for older people is not all about keeping them out of hospital - plans for a national care service must be based on some fundamental principles
Boost for 'cost-effective' individual budgets - people given control over their social care funds spent less than their local authority had when providing direct services, Department of Health chief reveals
Care for older people is not all about keeping them out of hospital
Cash bonus to give young jobless a start in social care
Personal Care at Home Bill: Engagement events
Banish stereotypes to give those in care the dignity they deserve, says Sir Michael Parkinson
Sir Michael Parkinson: My year as national dignity ambassador
Michael Parkinson says care of elderly 'downright unacceptable' - former talk show host condemns standards in hospitals and care homes in his role as government's dignity ambassador
Use of Medication in Care Homes
Care homes forcing elderly to have feeding tubes fitted - thousands of dementia sufferers told they must have surgery to gain entry
The Health and Social Care Act 2008: Code of practice for health and adult social care on the prevention and control of infections and related guidance
Wardens setback for 'easyCouncil' - blow to Tory local authority plan as judicial review rules Barnet council's cost-cutting decision unlawful
Care Quality Commission to scrutinise care for people with learning disabilities
Response to the Consultation on the Revision of the Fair Access to Care Services Guidance to Support Councils to Determine Eligibility for Social Care Services
Disabled people to get right to control services
Care Quality Commission: Oneplace for an independent overview of local public services
Barbara Young decides to leave Care Quality Commission
Carers need to know they are not alone - Christine Lenny is a carer for her son in Hull. she describes how she missed out on benefits and help for 34 years because she didn't know where to go for advice
Care Quality Commission praises improvements but calls for new drive to eliminate poor adult social care services
Care regulator reveals highs and lows for people receiving social care: Regional press releases
Care Quality Commission: Statement on the quality of adult social care
Care Quality Commission: The quality and capacity of adult social care services - An overview of the adult social care market in England 2008-09
Care Quality Commission: An assessment of 148 councils' social care services for adults, including performance against seven outcomes set by the government
Care Quality Commission: An analysis of whether councils are commissioning the best possible care
Care Quality Commission Response to the Green Paper on Shaping the Future of Care and Support Together
Care Quality Commission: How we manage dormant services
Adult social services criticised over level of care provided - as many as 80,000 people are living in care homes or receiving services rated 'poor' or 'adequate'
Care agencies accused of exploiting migrant care workers - the care of Britain's older people is increasingly being carried out by migrant workers.
Ambitious reforms to transform the social work profession
Building a Safe, Confident Future: The final report of the Social Work Task Force
Major social work reform announced - Government to accept all 15 proposals by taskforce to reform pay, and improve the quality of social work degrees and calibre of new recruits
Get connected project for adult social care
Personal Care at Home: A consultation on proposals for regulations and guidance
This runs until 23rd February 2010.
Personal Care at Home Bill introduced to Parliament
Grow Your Own Social Workers: A toolkit
Free care? Try telling that to our neglected elderly - the way we treat people with dementia suggests we're a long way from being the caring country we claim to be
Queen's speech focuses on pensioners, parents and economic recovery
2m elderly people could lose out under government care plans say Tories
Scrutiny toolkit for adult services - 10 key questions
Brown to put free social care for elderly at heart of Queen's speech - PM determined to use speech to show commitment to free domiciliary care for the most needy
Directgov: The Big Care Debate - Updated
Sir Michael Parkinson's dignity champions reach ten thousand
Dignity in Care: Input assessment - Department of Health interventions
Social Care Bulletin - Updated
General Social Care Council response to Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence report into its conduct function
Social care regulator 'ignored complaints to save money' - backlog of cases reached 700 as public safety was compromised following a budget cut, says inquiry
Mark Foster backs the Big Care Debate
Councils and the NHS must focus on health and social care outcomes
New regulations for health and adult social care providers
Means to an End: Joint financing across health and social care - October 2009
Chaos predicted as social care budgets get personal - 80% of care service users don't understand the government's new personal budgets for social care
In the balance - a national care service focusing on older people has led to fears that people with lifelong conditions will be sidelined
Use of Resources in Adult Social Care: A guide for local authorities
Charging for Residential Care: The property disregard and partners under 60
Social workers get their own TV channel - Social Care Insititute for Excellence launches the online channel Social Care TV
National Children and Adult Services Conference: Speech by Andy Burnham
Report of the Standing Commission on Carers 2007 to 2009
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