How to check whether your services are good enough
Providers must ensure their internal compliance mechanisms go beyond checklists to avoid poor practice, says consultant and former Care Quality Commission inspector Sughra Nazir.
27 March 2012
How smart phones can improve home care for users and staff
Smart phones are helping home care staff improve support and stay safe while delivering efficiency savings for their employers.
02 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
Human Rights Act 'must be extended to private home care'
Human rights protections should be extended to publicly-funded users of private home care services, the Equality and Human Rights Commission has urged after finding widespread abuses in the sector.
23 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
Lansley: NHS cash has stabilised care eligibility thresholds
Councils have stabilised eligibility thresholds and put in place services to cut hospital admissions with money transferred from the NHS this year, health secretary Andrew Lansley said today.
21 October 2011
Service users at risk as home care cuts shorten visits
Service users' safety and dignity are being put at risk due to council home care cuts, sector leaders have warned after a survey revealed service shortcomings.
05 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
Home care staff face worsening pay and reduced safety
Home care staff are facing reduced pay and conditions and are being put at risk because of council cuts to providers, a United Kingdom Homecare Association survey has found.
06 September 2011
Community Care launches website for adult care practitioners
Residential and domiciliary care staff are an important part of the social care universe but it is too easy for their needs to be ignored. Community Care has set out to address this problem with the launch of the latest addition to www.communitycare.co.uk - You Care.
07 September 2011
Cuts will damage social care service levels: finance expert
Social care departments will struggle to maintain "decent levels of services" without extra government funding, a finance expert has warned.
21 July 2011
Welsh government bids to cool social care fee row
The Welsh government has stepped in to save a landmark partnership agreement between councils and social care providers following a spate of rows over care fees.
22 June 2011
