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ADULT SOCIAL CARE
Council director appointed CQC interim chief inspector
By Martin Ford | 28 April 2023
James Bullion is to join the Care Quality Commission (CQC) as interim chief inspector of adult so...
ADULT SOCIAL CARE
Follow the road to health
By Richard Humphries | 25 April 2023
As an independent roadmap for reforming adult social care is published by social care leaders’ as...
ADULT SOCIAL CARE
Social care assessments will not be 'scary'
By Martin Ford | 14 April 2023
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has told councils ‘we aren’t as scary as people thought we were...
OFSTED
Kent receives improvement notice for SEND failings
By Martin Ford | 06 April 2023
An improvement notice has been issued to Kent CC after it failed to turn around its special educa...
ADULT SOCIAL CARE
Perilous pressure
By Ann McGauran | 20 March 2023
Ann McGauran reports from this year’s Care England Conference, where key figures discussed how to...
PAY
Adult social care provision 'perilous'
16 March 2023
A third of adult social care providers are considering leaving the market, a conference has heard.
ADULT SOCIAL CARE
No extra social care funding for struggling councils
By Martin Ford | 13 March 2023
A minister said councils would receive further support if they were found to be in need of improv...
WHITEHALL
Pride, innovation... and disappointment
By Karen Fuller | 15 February 2023
Karen Fuller sets out Oxfordshire CC’s experiences of preparing to pilot social care charging ref...
HEALTH
Sector given role in NHS plan
By Paul Marinko | 31 January 2023
Local government will join an ‘expert group’ with the voluntary and community sector and care pro...
ADULT SOCIAL CARE
Question mark over care ratings
By Martin Ford | 18 January 2023
Threatened Ofsted-style quality ratings for adult social care and integrated systems may not be i...
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