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Social care managers committed yet undervalued, finds poll
Registered managers are highly committed to their roles but most do not feel valued, a National Skills Academy for Social Care survey has found.
04 May 2012
Care providers challenged to stop bidding for low-fee tenders
Care providers should cease bidding for council contracts at prices they feel are too low to deliver the specified service, incoming Association of Directors of Adult Social Services president Sarah Pickup has said.
20 April 2012
Home care services face unannounced inspections
The Care Quality Commission started its three-month programme of unannounced inspections of 250 home care providers this week, which is designed to garner much more information from service users than previous probes of domiciliary agencies.
26 April 2012
Ex-CQC inspector arrested over alleged provider bribery
A former Care Quality Commission inspector was arrested today on suspicion of pressurising care providers to pay for favourable inspection reports.
26 April 2012
Complex care training key to good-quality home care
Home care providers must train up their workforces to support the rising number of clients with complex care needs, says Rebekah Newton, clinical director at Ark Complex Care.
09 March 2012
Missed and rushed care visits place elderly at risk
An investigation by Which? has found that older people are being put at serious risk from missed and rushed home care visits.
16 March 2012
Help for home care staff in using the Mental Capacity Act
Mel Palmer explains how home care staff should apply the Mental Capacity Act 2005 in the case of a service user who is self-neglecting and refusing to take his medication
05 March 2012
Whistleblower says council ordered care packages delay
A council until recently imposed a blanket month-long delay on organising care packages for vulnerable adults in order to save money, a whistleblower has told Community Care.
13 September 2011
Burstow: Users to shape new online care ratings system
Users and carers' opinions on care services will be published alongside ratings of their quality on an online "good care guide" designed to replace the star ratings scrapped last year, Paul Burstow has said.
12 December 2011
Government wants mass roll out of telecare services
The government is bidding to roll out telecare or telehealth devices to three million people with long-term conditions after a large-scale evaluation found they could significantly cut death rates and costs for the NHS.
05 December 2011
CQC to probe standards of home care
Standards of home care in England will be investigated by the Care Quality Commission to shine a light on services that operate "behind closed doors", says chief executive Cynthia Bower (pictured).
22 November 2011
Skills for Care launches guide for social care employers
Skills for Care has launched a practical guide to the Principles of Workforce Redesign to help adult social care employers manage the changes the sector is facing.
16 November 2011
UKHCA warns councils over care funding cuts
Care agencies are increasingly willing to use the courts to address home care funding issues, the United Kingdom Homecare Association has warned councils.
16 November 2011
UKHCA outlines the rules on rest periods for homecare workers
Colin Angel, policy and campaigns director of the United Kingdom Homecare Association, outlines the association's position regarding the rest periods domiciliary care staff should take while working
02 November 2011
Benefits of home care reablement in the long term
Reablement is popular with service users and although not the cheapest option, may have longer term benefits. Jill Manthorpe reviews the evidence
11 October 2011
Lansley's continuing care plan 'could save £300m a year'
Health secretary Andrew Lansley's (pictured) plans to extend personal health budgets (PHBs) to people receiving continuing healthcare could save £300m a year nationally.
07 October 2011
Your guide to: meeting minimum standards set by the CQC
Experts decode what the Care Quality Commission's 275-page document on meeting new standards means for residential and domiciliary care providers and adult placements
21 January 2011
Extra care housing 'delivers better outcomes than home care'
Social care professionals have been told to give users more information and advice on extra care housing after research found that it led to better outcomes and reduced costs compared with home care alone.
13 September 2011
Cuts damaging viability of rural home care visits
Rural home care services are becoming unviable become of the combined impact of cuts and journey times between visits, according to the United Kingdom Home Care Association.
06 September 2011
Care home workers take part in the WorldSkills competition
Two care assistants are representing the UK at this year's WorldSkills competition. Kirsty McGregor finds out about their ambitions and the training involved
12 September 2011
