Responsible Reform: Changes to Disability Living
Allowance
A new report has been researched, written and funded by
disabled people. The report is based on an analysis of
500 responses to the UK government's consultation on its
planned disability living allowance (DLA) changes and
cuts. The report suggests that the coalition's proposed
'reforms' lack both support and credibility and that the
government's DLA consultation breached its own code of
practice and was "highly misleading"...
Easy read
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16/2/12 |
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Health &
Wellbeing Day - Wednesday 1 February
Herefordshire Council Learning Disability team are
running a Health and Wellbeing day on 1st February at
Halo Leisure Centre in Hereford. Click on the link
to find out what activities are being run...
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30/1/12 |
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NHS must spend more on adult social care, say MPs
www.communitycare.co.uk
The NHS should spend more on adult social care to
improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of support
for older and disabled people, MPs said today...Read
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25/1/12 |
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Lords back disability benefit shake-up
www.bbc.co.uk
The government has headed off a House of Lords defeat
over plans to replace the Disability Living Allowance.
Ministers want to amend the system to make sure
claimants have to undergo more testing, but opponents
say this will mean 500,000 people will lose benefits...Read
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18/1/12 |
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Cuts increasing risk of loneliness and depression
among elderly, finds report
www.communitycare.co.uk
Older people believe their well-being is under attack
through a combination of cuts to community services,
poor care at home services and failings in hospital
care, putting an overstretched NHS under even greater
pressure, research from the WRVS released today shows.
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10/11/11 |
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Council and NHS seek views on priorities for budgets
A major consultation to determine Herefordshire
residents’ priorities for where council and local NHS
budgets should be targeted will begin on 14 November...
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3/11/11 |
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Social workers' support planning role 'must be cut
back'
www.communitycare.co.uk
Social workers' role in support planning should be
radically reduced so that service users can take control
of deciding how to spend their personal budgets, an
influential paper said this week....
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3/11/11 |
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Disabled people's benefit system needs reform, says
minister
www.guardian.co.uk
Controversial assessments of disabled people that have
led to many losing their state benefits will be reformed,
said Steve Webb, the Liberal Democrat work and pensions
minister...Read
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23/9/11 |
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Boom in personal assistants drives adult sector
growth
www.communitycare.co.uk
A boom in the number of personal assistants swelled the
size of the adult social care workforce by 7% in a
single year, figures have revealed today....
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7/9/11 |
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Council pays out £9,000 for failing carer and
disabled man
www.communitycare.co.uk
A council has agreed to pay a carer £9,000 for
assessment failings that made it more difficult for her
to request support in caring for her severely disabled
son...
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7/9/11 |
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Councils withdrawing social workers from mental
health teams
www.communitycare.co.uk
Mental health services risk becoming fragmented and put
under increased pressure by councils withdrawing social
workers from integrated teams, NHS leaders have warned...
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30/8/11 |
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Ministers plan more competition for social care
www.communitycare.co.uk
The government plans to open up children's services to competition
as part of its Open Public Services White Paper
launched today...
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8/8/11 |
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More care homes on the brink of closure as fees fall
www.communitycare.co.uk
Many more care home
providers across the UK will follow Southern Cross into
administration this year because of cuts to care home
fees, a study by sector analysts Laing and Buisson
predicts...
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8/8/11 |
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CQC to double inspections of adult care services
www.communitycare.co.uk
Adult social care services
would be inspected at least once a year under Care
Quality Commission plans to call time on "light-touch"
regulation...
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19/7/11 |
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Elderly care proposals: all you need to know about
the Dilnot report
www.guardian.co.uk
The Dilnot report is looking
into paying for elderly care, but what do its proposals
mean for you...Read
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05/07/2011 |
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Elderly care: the key data from the Dilnot report
www.guardian.co.uk
The Dilnot Committee's
report into long term social care is crammed with vital
statistics. See what they say ...Read
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05/07/2011 |
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Dilnot reforms could prove too costly, warns Lansley
www.communitycare.co.uk
The Dilnot commission's
£1.7bn proposals to reform social care funding could
prove too costly to implement in full, health secretary
Andrew Lansley warned today...Read
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05/07/2011 |
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Dilnot care funding reforms 'to face hostile public
reaction'
www.communitycare.co.uk
The Dilnot commission's
proposed reforms of care funding will face a hostile
reaction because many people still believe social care
should be entirely state-funded...Read
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04/07/2011 |
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Social care costs 'should be capped at £35,000'
www.bbc.co.uk
Social care costs in England should be capped
so people do not face losing large chunks of their assets, an
independent review says. Council-funded home help and care home
places for the elderly and adults with disabilities are
currently offered only to those with under £23,250 of assets...Read
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04/07/2011 |
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