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ADULT SOCIAL CARE

Plea for £1.6bn winter care funding

By Martin Ford | 06 November 2020

Social care directors have made an appeal to the Government for a new funding package.

ADULT SOCIAL CARE

Redesign services for a COVID era, says CQC chief

By Dan Peters | 06 November 2020

The chief executive of the Care Quality Commission has called for services to be redesigned for a...

WHITEHALL

Care home occupancy down over Grim Reaper fears

By Dan Peters | 05 November 2020

People are reluctant to put their relatives into care homes because they think the ‘Grim Reaper i...

ADULT SOCIAL CARE

Care Act easements 'politicised'

By Martin Ford | 05 November 2020

A ‘sense of injustice’ among adult care directors has been detailed in a report on the use of eas...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

NCAS: Experts call for a social care solution

By Heather Jameson | 04 November 2020

There must be ‘no more procrastination’ on resolving the issues of adult social care that have be...

ADULT SOCIAL CARE

Short-termism can be expensive

By Iain MacBeath | 04 November 2020

COVID-19 has laid bare the numerous challenges faced by adult social care. Iain MacBeath, NCASC 2...

HEALTH

What did we learn from discharging patients into care homes?

By Cllr Tony Jones | 02 November 2020

A consensus seemed to emerge that the rapid exporting of patients from hospitals without COVID te...

WHITEHALL

Care directors warn of lockdown impact on homes

By Martin Ford | 02 November 2020

The Association of Directors of Adults Social Services (ADASS) has urged the Government to ensure...

ADULT SOCIAL CARE

Councils stare into a highly uncertain financial future

By David Phillips | 29 October 2020

Extra funding will help English councils this year, but big questions remain for 2021 and beyond,...

ADULT SOCIAL CARE

Reading refuses to send COVID-19 patients to care homes

By Martin Ford | 28 October 2020

Reading Council is to defy a Government order to provide care home places for Covid-19 positive p...

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Chief Operating Officer (Section 151 Officer)

£135,406-£171,760

Shape the future of one of the UK’s most ambitious and distinctive places. Apply for this job

Cornwall Council

Director of Children and Young People’s Services

£171,760

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Solicitor

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