Posted in News on Mar 4th, 2010
The Law Commission has launched a consultation process to overhaul the laws governing the provision of social care by local authorities in England and Wales. At present, an authority’s duties are covered by 38 separate Acts of Parliament, some dating back to the 1940s. The Law Commission wants to pull these together into a single [...]
Posted in News on Feb 22nd, 2010
The Welsh Assembly has announced that it is making £4.7 million of funding available to help older and disabled people stay living in their own homes for longer. The funds will be given to Care and Repair agencies across Wales, which work to provide people with the support they need to live independently, such as [...]
Posted in News on Feb 22nd, 2010
Peter Black, health spokesman for the Welsh Liberal Democrats, has called for the country’s health and social care services to work together to provide a more efficient and cost-effective service. His article on the Wales Online website was published shortly after he launched a consultation process to discuss the way forward for community care in [...]
Posted in News on Jan 31st, 2010
The Welsh Assembly met on 26 January 2010 to debate the country’s latest care and social services report, which indicates that urgent action should be taken to improve falling standards. Issues raised in the Care & Social Services Inspectorate Wales (CSSIW) annual report include widespread inconsistency in the quality and availability of social care services [...]
Posted in News on Jan 31st, 2010
The army of unpaid carers who provide 70% of social care in Wales are to receive more support. The Welsh government has passed new legislation ordering health and social services to work together to make more information available to carers and to consult them on services that are available to them and the people they [...]
Posted in News on Jan 26th, 2010
Welsh Assembly members have voted to introduce the social care charging measure following a debate on 19 January 2010. The measure will set a minimum and maximum amount that all local authorities in Wales can charge for home care. At present, the figure varies wildly across the country with services users in Rhondda Cynon Taff [...]
Posted in News on Jan 7th, 2010
The public services ombudsman has ruled that the Welsh NHS ‘failed in its duty’ to fund and provide care for a patient, known only as ‘Mr B’, who sustained serious head injuries after being attacked. Mr B’s parents had to pay a substantial amount of money from their retirement savings for private treatments after [...]
Posted in News on Jan 7th, 2010
Care provider Pendine Park has announced that it hopes to create a world-leading dementia care centre on the site of a former hospital in Gwynedd, Wales. The company is about to submit a planning permission application for the £4 million project, which would provide a mixture of home and community-based services for dementia patients [...]
Posted in News on Dec 31st, 2009
Wales has launched a consultation process on the future of its social services. The consultation will be managed by a new body, set up in December 2009, called the Independent Commission on Social Services. The Commission’s role is to investigate and report back on how the Welsh Assembly Government should reshape social care [...]
Posted in News on Dec 21st, 2009
An ambitious project announced by the Welsh Assembly Government to provide a range of services for elderly people – including not-for-profit care homes designed to reduce financial pressure on the nation’s pensioners – has been postponed until at least 2011. Other services that had been planned under the One Wales agreement include nursing home [...]
