Media Report - 27 October 2015

Community Care

Joint LGA/ADASS submission to spending review

Ray James

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Community Care

Mithran Samuel’s on Ray James’s challenge to care the minister Alistair Burt on how a sustainable system could be achieved in the current funding environment.

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Community Care

Tool launched to help adults' directors identify risks to quality or financing of adult care in local areas

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Community Care

Social care cuts are damaging the health service in England, warn the vast majority of NHS finance chiefs.

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Community Care

Department of Health analysis shows local authorities have prioritised recruitment and training in spending one-off safeguards grant

Lorraine Currie

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The Guardian

CQC annual report

Ray James

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Local Government Chronicle

Winterbourne View dowries set to last a life time

Ray James

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Municipal Journal

Mike Burton describes ADASS President Ray James’s `disappointment’ at Ministers’ failure to attend NCASC

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Municipal Journal

Column by Bev Maybury

Nobody knows when a care provider - big or small, home or residential - might run into the sort of difficulty which could make continuing to run a business questionable. Subs only

http://www.themj.co.uk/Take-a-proactive-approach/202113

Ministers confirm continuation of Better Care Fund

By Dan Peters | 26 October 2015

The Better Care Fund (BCF) will continue into 2016/17, ministers have confirmed.

However, The MJ understands that it will be down to local areas to decide whether their current BCF schemes should be ‘continued, adapted or discontinued into 2016/17’.

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