Health Ombudsman urges action to prevent ‘avoidable’ deaths of people with a learning disability
May 2014 – The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman has launched its campaign Complain for Change, which aims to raise awareness of its services for people.
Parliamentary Inquiry into Childcare for Disabled Children: Have your say
A Parliamentary Inquiry into childcare for disabled children has just been launched wby Robert Buckland MP and Pat Glass MP. The charities EDCM, the Family and Childcare Trust, Contact A Family and Working Families are supporting the inquiry. The inquiry aims to gather evidence on how to improve the affordability, quality, availability and access of […]
Proposed care home closures: the meaning of ‘a place for life’…
Further to our blog-item on the threat to residential homes such as Stanley Grange and Bystock Court a Rescare member has alerted us to this letter in the Daily Telegraph 28th April. The letter was written by parent-carers partly in response to Jane Raca’s feature article published the previous day. Many residents of the care […]
Mental Capacity Law and Policy website launched.
The following press release was recently issued by the legal chambers Thirty Nine Essex Street: Mental Capacity Law and Policy website launched March 2014 Alex Ruck Keene has recently launched this site focussing on Mental Capacity law and policy for all those who work in this sector. The aim of the site is to facilitate […]
Jane Raca – Parent Carer: Standing up For James
The mother of a young man with severe learning disabilities has written about her experiences as a parent and carer. A feature piece on Jane Raca (and on the pressures faced by the parents of learning disabled children) appeared in the News Review section of the Sunday Telegraph, April 27th. The article is well worth […]
Culture Change at the CQC? Consultation now underway
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has written to advise us that its consultation webpage has been updated, and now looks like this:
Rosa Monckton condemns proposed care home closure
Rosa Monckton, clearly angered by what is proposed for the residents of Bystock Court, a residential home in Devon run by Devon Sheltered Homes Trust, published a moving and well-argued article in the Daily Mail’s Femail section on 16th April. We were encouraged to see that Rosa was shedding light on issues that Rescare has […]
SCIE publishes new guide: adult safeguarding for housing staff
In light of the Winterbourne View report, and of various serious case reviews, which confirmed the perception of many carers and relatives that ‘housing providers could or should have played a more effective role in adult safeguarding’, the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) has now published a new Guide, which aims to improve communication […]
Lords Committee reports on MCA. So what next?
The House of Lords Select Committee on the Mental Capacity Act 2005 published its report in March. The report is available on line as a PDF. The two main conclusions were: that the Act is not widely implemented and that responsibility for implementing the Act should therefore be given to an independent body. that the […]
Increase in Carer’s Allowance earnings threshold (!!!)
Rescare has just received the latest ‘Stakeholder Bulletin’ from The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), ‘a digest of DWP measures announced in today’s Budget’. It includes the following announcement: Increase in Carer’s Allowance earnings threshold Carers cannot earn over a prescribed earnings limit, currently set at £100 a week, net of allowable expenses. The […]