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SOCIAL CARE

CQC appoints new adult care chief

By Martin Ford | 28 January 2019

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has appointed Kate Terroni as chief inspector of adult social c...

SOCIAL CARE

The risk paradox

By Andy Begley | 23 January 2019

The conflict between ‘traditional’ public sector risk management and the pace required to deliver...

SOCIAL CARE

Let's move away from these short-term patches to funding

By John O’ Brien | 23 January 2019

The decision in the provisional local government finance settlement to allocate the social care s...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Where do councils fit into the NHS plan?

By Michael Burton | 15 January 2019

Last week’s publication of the NHS Long Term Plan signals a fundamental shift towards community-b...

SOCIAL CARE

NHS long term plan only offers part of the solution

By Ian Hudspeth | 14 January 2019

Chairman of the LGA's Community Wellbeing Board Ian Hudspeth says until social care is fully fund...

SOCIAL CARE

Early intervention's not enough without funding

By Heather Jameson | 09 January 2019

There will never be enough money for the behemoth that is the NHS - and the real under-funding i...

SOCIAL CARE

Let's build on the positives of 2018

By Simon Edwards | 08 January 2019

Director of the CCN Simon Edwards says that while the latest fair funding consultation is on a po...

HEALTH

Number of night-time hospital discharges increases

By Naomi Larsson | 07 January 2019

Rising numbers of elderly and vulnerable patients are being sent home from hospital at night desp...

SOCIAL CARE

Like Mariah Carey, it may be prudent to not want a lot for Xmas this year

By Abdool Kara | 12 December 2018

Despite a number of minor successes, the position of the sector as it approaches the end of the y...

FINANCE

We need to talk about finance

By Piali Das Gupta | 12 December 2018

Piali Das Gupta wants central Government, caught up with Brexit, to start paying attention to the...

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Director of Children and Young People’s Services

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