Botton Village Latest: Charity Commission ‘disappointed’ in actions of Camphill Village Trust Charity
Please see below the latest press release from Action for Botton: Charity Commission ‘disappointed’ in actions of Camphill Village Trust Charity Campaign group Action for Botton is celebrating following the decision of the Charity Commission to give the go ahead for the second of two sets of proceedings in the High Court against Camphill Village […]
SCIE reports on its roundtable event on leadership and the Care Act.
SCIE reports on its roundtable event on leadership and the Care Act… The press release described it as “Messages from the frontline. Report from SCIE’s Roundtable event on leadership and the Care Act”. The topic might seem obscure, complicated, abstract, and probably even irrelevant to family and other carers. And as Professor Martin Green, Chief […]
Now available: Law Society Guidance on Deprivation of Liberty
Rescare has just received the following newsflash via email from 39 Essex Street, legal chambers who specialise in the Mental Capacity Act, Court of Protection, etc. Law Society Guidance: Deprivation of Liberty Thu 09/04/2015 16:34 Good afternoon. The Law Society has issued comprehensive guidance on the law relating to the deprivation of liberty safeguards. The […]
Botton Latest (March 31st) – Botton dispute reaches the High Court (Round 1…)
The following is taken from a report by journalist Ashley Bernard, which appeared in The Northern Echo yesterday 30th March. Charity and residents of village for learning disabled people at loggerheads of judicial review application outcome An application for a judicial review by learning disabled residents of a North Yorkshire care village about a breach […]
Green Paper aiming to give people ‘more rights’.
Care Minister Norman Lamb has launched the “No voice unheard, no right ignored” programme to strengthen the rights of people with learning disabilities, autism and mental health conditions and ensure they get the best care possible. “no voice unheard, no right ignored” will ask for people’s views on a range of proposed measures, such as […]
Carers face a postcode lottery accessing support
A newly published report entitled ‘How local authorities allocate resources t0 carers through carer personal budgets’ has found that carers face a postcode lottery in access to support because of significant variations in the way councils carry out assessments, determine eligibility and allocate resources. The study into how councils treat carers was undertaken by the Social Policy […]
Just published (Dec 17th) “Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment: first independent review”.
On 17th December, Mark Harper Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions) (Disabled People) made the following ministerial statement in the Commons: “The Government are pleased to announce that the first independent review of the personal independence payment (PIP) assessment, carried out by Paul Gray, will be published later today. This is the first […]
Guidance due on ‘low-level support’ for people with autism
Government announces plans to use new Care Act to promote provision of low-level support to people with autism. The provision of ‘low-level support’ seems to be linked to an intention to implement Think Autism, the 2014 update to the 2010 Adult Autism Strategy. The announcement came via an exchange between Tom Clarke MP (Chair of the […]
DWP launches new digital service for Carer’s Allowance claimants
The statement below is from the latest Department for Work and Pensions Touchbase Newsletter, just received by Rescare. This may be of interest to those receiving or intending to claim Carer’s Allowance. Entitlements to Carer’s Allowance was amended in the Care Act 2014 – details here – or see other recent news and blog items […]
Statistics on Learning Disability and Residential Care
A perennial problem for those representing the learning disabled and their carers has been access to accurate statistics or even up-to-date estimates of the numbers of persons affected by learning disability (a problem itself stemming from difficulties in ‘categorisation’, and from the absence of statutory requirements to record data). The following recent exchange in the Commons […]