Devon Care Home Closures: Guinness Care and Support
A Rescare member has brought to our attention the implementation by Guinness Care and Support of the results of a review of its services in Devon. In the current economic climate, Rescare fears these will not be isolated events… 2nd August 2012: Concern as three care homes prepare to close 3rd August 2012: Families get […]
Former Minister Paul Burstow speaks out on learning disability hospitals, social care funding…
From Community Care online: The government must initiate the closure of Winterbourne View-style learning disability hospitals by instructing the NHS to start decommissioning them, Paul Burstow has said. The call, which goes beyond the government’s current position, came in an interview with Community Care three weeks after Burstow lost his job as care services minister after more […]
Murdered care leaver wrongly denied adult care assessment. SCR also exposes Mental Capacity Act knowledge gap.
SCR: Murdered care leaver wrongly denied adult care assessment. Case review also exposes Mental Capacity Act knowledge gap among children’s social workers. A Serious Case Review (SCR) was commissioned by Stockport Safeguarding Adults Board following the murder of Martin Hyde and the conviction of his murderers. The SCR has now concluded that the murder could […]
Have your say in the Government’s Blue Badge Consultation
The Government is currently undertaking a consultation on the future of the Blue Badge scheme in England (and separate consultations are anticipated in Wales and Scotland). The National Autistic Society (NAS) is concerned that the Government will prioritise people with a physical disability for a Blue Badge. “The Government must understand a Blue Badge can […]
Care Quality Commission: a Whistleblowing Tsunami?
Perhaps the most significant fact to emerge from the Commons Health Committee’s hearing of evidence from the Care Quality Commission on 11th September was that the number calls to the watchdog’s whistleblowing hotline since the Winterbourne View scandal ‘broke’ has risen ten-fold. Dame Jo Williams’ evidence attracted considerable press attention e.g. in the Daily Telegraph and […]
Dame Jo Williams resigns as chair of the Care Quality Commission
Dame Jo Williams resigns as chair of the Care Quality Commission. BBC News, 7th Sept 2012: “The chair of the organisation which regulates health and social care in England, Dame Jo Williams, has announced she will resign from the post. She said it had been a “privilege” to work at the Care Quality Commission, but […]
MFCs…
Rescare first noticed the acronym MFC in an on-line article by Andrew Fagg on the BBC News website dated 24th August 2012: Sickness benefit contractor Atos Healthcare to review letters – which reported criticisms, from individuals and representative organisations such as MIND, of how Atos treated and communicated with persons with a variety of mental […]
Personal Independence Payment Assessment Criteria: consultation continues…
11th Sept 2012: Esther McVey, new Minster for Disabled People at the Department for Work and Pensions, has been busy in her new post – to judge by the number of email-alerts received by Rescare in the last two days notifying us of a written or verbal statements made by her to Parliament. This parliamentary […]
Social Care (Local Sufficiency) and Identification of Carers Bill
This Private Member’s Bill, introduced by Barbara Keeley MP, received its Second Reading in the Commons on 7th Sept 2012. The progress of the Social Care (Local Sufficiency) and Identification of Carers Bill may be followed here on the Parliament website: http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2012-13/socialcarelocalsufficiencyandidentificationofcarers.htm The Bill would: Improve the availability and flexibility of care available locally
Analysis: Cameron culls social care ministers in reshuffle
“David Cameron’s government reshuffle has triggered a mass clearout of ministers with responsibility for social care and welfare.” A full review of the the recent minsiter reshuffle (Sept 2012) , see this article in Community Care: http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/05/09/2012/118498/Cameron-culls-social-care-ministers-in-reshuffle.htm This includes a short profile of each incoming minister, including Esther McVey who succeeds Maria Miller as Minister […]