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The clock has begun ticking for the General Social Care Council (GSCC) after it was told by the government last month that its role is no longer essential
on a national basis.
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Over a third of England’s local authorities risk missing the government’s October deadline for having appropriate information and advice services
relating to the social care personalisation agenda, according to a survey published this month.
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Following in the footsteps of the beleaguered Highland council (CCMN July 2010), South Gloucestershire council has come in for resident criticism this
month with the news that long standing plans to build two new residential care homes have been cancelled in favour of a move to outsource the
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Bolton council has drawn up proposals which if approved would see it make a significant transformation from care provider to care commissioner over
the next three years.
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With plans for outsourcing its residential care provision currently on the backburner thanks to public discord (CCMN July 2010), councillors at Neath
Port Talbot have turned their attention to community care policies starting with a major review of homecare services rolling out over the three months.
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The conservative thinktank Policy Exchange has implored the government not to pay for care purely through general taxation as the coalition’s
commission on the funding of care embarks on finding a sustainable model for long term care.
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Health Secretary Andrew Lansley last month named Andrew Dilnot as the chair of a commission tasked with investigating how this country can
revolutionise the funding of social care in order to deal with ageing demographics, a dementia tsunami and a general populace who believe that the state
owes them a degree of support in their old age (CCMN July 2010).
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| Southern Cross still battling against volatile stock market |
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An interim management statement from the country’s largest residential care home operator Southern Cross Healthcare has had the far from desirable effect of knocking share values down to a new all time low this month in the toughest sign yet that public spending cuts could have a lasting and damaging effect on service providers unable to take the strain.
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The LNT group has added a further five care homes to the portfolio operated by its business Ideal Care Homes with the news that it has taken back facilities which it had previously rented to Orchard Care Homes.
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| Coldharbour runs hot with contract awards |
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Healthcare IT provider Coldharbour is having a fruitful summer having picked up a number of new contracts with a line up of providers currently building their presence in the sector.
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