Do you subscribe to Community Care's really rather splendid daily and weekly email updates? If not, you should do as they are a handy way of keeping up to date with all the latest social care news.

For existing subscribers I need to let you know that our email service will be taking a Christmas break with the last email of the year going out on Friday 17 December and the first email of next year winging its way to you on Wednesday 5 January.

Social care news junkies can continue to visit www.communitycare.co.uk through the whole holiday period.

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