Home Care News
Underpaid disability claimants to receive up to £20,000 due to DWP miscalculation
21 Mar 2018
The Government has been ordered to cough up between £570m and £830m to cover overdue disability benefits payments, which were mistakenly underpaid when previous benefits schemes were changed over to the Employment and Support Allowance.....
Jeremy Hunt pledges care cap to stop 'unfair' costs for those with dementia
20 Mar 2018
Health and Social Care Secretary Jeremy Hunt has launched his blueprint for reforming the social care system, promising the much anticipated Green Paper in the summer will “kick start the vital debate” into social care funding. Speaking.....
'Tigger-like' Hammond's Spring Statement condemned by social care's 'Eeyores'
13 Mar 2018
Philip Hammond was bouncy as he delivered his Spring Statement, describing himself as ‘positively Tigger-like’ while announcing the economy had grown every year since 2010, however his speech gave no joy to the care sector. With.....
Sex is a basic 'human right' for elderly with dementia
08 Mar 2018
The care sector needs to let older people with dementia live as ‘full human beings’, according to Scottish Care’s chief executive who has condemned ‘negative and unhelpful attitudes’ about the elderly's sexual needs. ‘Human.....