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- Briefing 10 Home
- Revenue: There May be Trouble Ahead
- In Brief
- The Evolution of the Personalisation Agenda
- Tendering: What Should you do Before you Tender?
- Tendering: What Should you do When You've Won?
- Revenue: Strategies for Providers of Housing Support & Social Care
- "Mainstreaming" Supporting People: What Does it Mean
- Hoarding: What Lies Beneath it All?
- Volunteering: Still an Important Contribution
- Issue 11 Home
- The Comprehensive Spending Review
- Conference: Housing Support & Social Care
- In Brief
- How Good are your Services?
- Personalisation Staff Engagement
- Good Practice in Fair Access, Diversity and Inclusion in Housing with Support and Care
- Dementia - What More Can Be Done By Society?
- Big Society Times
- Tenancy Obligations & Support Funding
- Alternative Sources of Funding
- Tendering: The Big Day Has Arrived
- Surviving The Brave New World
- Intensive Housing Management: RSLs Securing the Future?
- Big Society: Postioning Ourselves to be Part of it.
- Involvement and Empowerment
- DWP Consultation Proposals: Support Solutions Response
- Issue 12 Home
- Excellence & Continuous Improvement
- Intensive Housing Management & the DWP HB Consultation Proposals
- Funding for Housing Support and Social Care Services in a Time of Change
- Payment by Results
- Welfare Reform Bill 2011
- Personalisation in Action
- Developing New Services in Partnership with Customer Involvement
- DWP Housing Benefit Update
- Universal Credit & Supported Housing
- Exempt Supported Housing, Universal Credit & Intensive Housing Management
- Welfare Reform, Universal Credit & Exempt Accommodation
- funding alarms
- Briefing 9 Home
- Editorial
- In Brief
- The Maze of Change: Which Way Should Providers Go?
- Security: is it Housing Management or Support?
- The Refreshed QAF: Changes & the Wider Context
- Pandemic 'Flu Planning
- The End of Exempt Accommodation?
- The Housing & Support Forum
- Sheltered Housing: Where are the Wardens?
- endering, Commissioning & Consortia
- Managing Outcomes
- Exempt Accommodation: the Turnbull Impact
The Briefing
issue 10
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- Review of Providing Information and Advice to Carers
- Councils' Inefficient Social Care Assessments Waste £300m
- Inspectors find care home had no crime checks on staff
- DOH: rare conditions that should be commissioned nationally
- Do you have practice issues following the Care and Support White Paper?
- Challenges to changes: Adult Social Care flagged as biggest strain
- RCN adverts showcase how demanding nursing and care is
- Which? find that families are left picking up the pieces of poor care
- Department of Health give overview of the future Health and Care System
- Report on the most effective process for Personal Health Budgets
- Yorkshire Care Home fined £165,000 after 93 year old suffocates
- New Care Bill to "Empower" People to Make Their Own Choices
- Can Telecare help with the Social Care Reforms?
- Lamb calls for quick conclusion to social care funding
- NHS Confed issues warning over £2b gap in social care funding
- NHS "could get worse from 2013"
- NHS change focus of specialists to include mental health and dementia
- Mother challenges Virgin Care takeover of mental health service
- Technology could limit how benefits are spent
- Delay in publishing the Francis Report will delay progress
- Home care workers are not being properly vetted
- 'Power of Entry' to protect vulnerable adults from abuse
- NHS Confed's issues with Personal Budgets and Integrated Care
- Council cuts are permanently changing services
- Quality of Life in Care Homes is Important!
- Personal budgets target scrapped, and Deadline mentioned for Dilnot introduction
- Social Care Reform Urgent as Winterbourne patients still suffer
- Patients may be turned away from homes as NHS drop funding by £s;250 p/w
- Cuts from reforms may clash with "troubled families" initiative
- Healthcare assistants taking over nursing roles to save money
- Council has failed to promote equality for disabled and older people
- Join the Dignity in Care Campaign
- Social Workers are inadequate with Personal Budgets
- CQC finds vulnerable people are receiving poor care
- Wake up call to bad care in NHS
- Personal Budgets are proven to improve care
- Rise in Abuse Alerts shows Improvements in Safeguarding
- Care Home Inspections don't reflect Patient Assessments
- New protections for when care providers fail
- Emergency Hospital Beds would be avoided with Better Social Care
- Negative register of Adult Care Staff
- Disproportionate Cuts for Disabled People and Carers - Speak out Now!
- Help get Healthwatch up and running
- Further Cuts to Adult Social Care
- NHS Confed Wants to Invest More in Care
- Coalition to Set Care Cap at £75,000
- Mid-term Review on NHS and Social Care
- Care Worker pay cuts against employee rights
- ATOS Healthcare Debated in Parliament
- Telehealth will need more support from GPs to take off
- Govt says Social Workers could be taken out of Adoption Process
- Welsh Govt give legal rights of support to Carers
- Support for benefits to be on pre-paid cards
- DOH wants your help to Improve Social Care
- 1.2 million Public Sector Job Cuts will Deteriorate Services
- Campaigners say £75,000 Cap will not solve the Care Crisis
- CQC find 26% of home care failed standards
- Carers Benefits will be cut by £31m
- Social Worker driven to Suicide after Workload increases
- More cuts to Adults Services and Declining Quality
- Midlands Council needs to cut £68m
- Atos subcontract NHS trusts for PIP
- Privatisation could be Dangerous for Healthcare
- Health Care 'Struggling to Cope' with Dementia
- Social Context shows up Health Inequalities
- Working Together is not 'radical enough'
- Jeremy Hunt Announces Response to Francis Report
- Food Vouchers Instead of Cash for Support
- JRF Comment on Postcode Poverty Report
- Dementia patients not receiving basic care
- The Change from DLA to PIP begins
- Concern Over New Disability Benefit Allowance
- PIP assessments to be more empathetic
- Integrated Care May Suffer from New Funding System
- Independent Living Fund Court Challenge Lost
- Are GPS tags for Dementia Patients barbaric?
- More Specialist Housing Needed for Dementia
- Telecare Improves Lives in Pilot Project
- Integration by 2018 will Improve Care Standards
- Autism:The Care System Fails...
- txtm8 - 24/7 support via text for young people
- WCA is Declared Too Difficult to Navigate
- Third sector and small charities at risk following cuts
- Barnardo's and KFC start new partnership
- The National Council for Voluntary Organisations and Volunteering England agree to merge
- Walk to a Well World Week!
- 51 charities in Colchester close in 5 years
- Changes to business rates might harm charities, say NCVO and CFG
- Charities face generation time-bomb
- Funding Central - a useful guide for charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises
- Professionalisation of charities might have alienated donors
- Small Charities Will Struggle to Claim under new Small Donations Scheme
- Only 12% of charities comply with reserve rules
- Bullied 14 year old starts Tourettes Awareness Charity
- NCVO income falls by 27% after reductions in grants
- Charity treasurer jailed for writing £27k of cheques to himself
- Children in Need raise record donations
- Two Big Issue Vendors Murdered in Birmingham
- Charities Hit Hard by Cuts
- Donating needs to modernise for younger donators
- Catholic Charity has to Stop Discrimination Against Same Sex Couples
- Midlands charity named as most innovative housing providers
- Shelter At Risk of Closing Advice Services
- Finance for Charities falls £2.1bn short
- MOJ launch service to help Charities with Reoffending
- Guidelines to Ensure Charities are used fairly for public contracts
- Shelter and CAB Create Joint Service for Welfare Reforms
- Abuse Poster That Only a Child Can See
- Lack of Funding for Charities to Manage Finances
- Device gives limbless people the ability to write and draw
- Children aged 12 being treated for drink problems in London
- London sees 27% rise in homelessness
- Mental health problems 'common' among homeless youths
- Impact of Cuts on Violence Against Women Services
- Residential care to prepare disabled people for independence
- Middle-aged Men 'Highest Risk' of Suicide During Recession
- CQC chair apologises for comments on colleague's mental health
- £500k to protect East Lancashire women from domestic abuse
- Championing Asylum Rights After Death of Whole Family
- Lack of Research Queries Programs for Autistic Adults
- 'Cuts are Threat to Justice System'
- Lack of support for older patients trying to recover
- Community Mental Health Services - 15,000 people give their opinion
- Hospital issued DNR because a man had Down's Syndrome
- Alzhemer's Society say hospital system on the brink of crisis
- New hope of stem cell cure for deaf people
- 58 year-old with Multiple Sclerosis living in homeless shelter to stage protest at council
- Homelessness Charity plan Sleep-over to cover losses from cuts
- CHANGE - Helping people with learning disabilities understand Cancer
- Fire Services across the nation sign up to dementia pledge
- Homeless families in B&Bs rise by nearly 50%
- Care Cuts for learning disabilities spark a 360% increase in demand at Mencap
- Inability to reduce prison population may accelerate privatisation
- Will the change in definition of Domestic Violence be hindered by Funding Cuts?
- What can England learn from Scotland on integrating health and social care?
- Service for Women's support with Violence and Abuse Wins Award!
- Do not shy away from Dementia and it's research!
- Older people being Excluded from Decision Making
- National Autistic Society respond to ATOS
- 'Clink' Restaurant opens to help prisoners prepare for release
- Asylum Seeker Process can cause Mental Health Problems for Children
- Prisoners pay three quarters of a million to support victims
- Update of Payment By Results for Mental Health
- Pregnant women, children and people with disabilities among those living on less than 77p a day
- Research in to Older people's experiences of Care Transition
- Figures show fall in mental health 'guardianship' cases
- Homeless man fails in bid to get prison bed
- New campaign to drive awareness of dementia
- Crisis launch guide on housing ex-offenders
- New Website to Tackle Homelessness
- Leeds introduces '"homeless mapping" of services for homelessness
- Norwich disabled assessment centre 'inaccessible'
- M&S create jobs with Remploy for disabled people
- Child starved to death after benefits delay
- Councils condemned for forcing homeless into B&Bs
- Training staff in alternatives to antipsychotics in dementia care
- Is 'disproportionate' force on burglars any alteration to current law?
- Pakistani Girl fighting for education will receive treatment in the UK
- Mental Health experts WHO call for better treatment
- Older person care is at the top of voters concerns
- World Mental Health Day 2012 - by Mental Healthy
- Older People's Mental Health is ignored
- Govt-hosted Dementia Summit may boost interest in research
- Council homes Illegally Sub-let while families in need live in hostels
- Older patients miss out on vital treatment because of their age
- Social care keeps people out of hospital at end of life
- Prisoners found with drugs 'must be denied physical contact'
- Study shows 60% of young offenders had sustained a brain injury
- Charities to help Offenders with Payment by Results
- Detainees at risk of self-harm: better information-sharing needed on escort records
- Campaign to Ban Websites After Dramatic Rise in Self Harm Cases
- Remploy Bolton is reopened as Ability Tec
- Older person care unsustainable as councils fail to make fair payments
- Norfolk and Suffolk's mental health trust to shed 500 front-line jobs
- NHS cuts to hearing services is a 'false economy'
- Rows over ruling if prisoners have the right to vote
- New homelessness strategy to give alternative and long term options
- Mental Health Act Detentions rise for 5th year
- Care home plans 1950s room to help dementia patients
- Miliband calls for an end to demeaning mental illness
- Error in Mental Health Sectioning
- Care homes recommended!
- Emergency Mental Health Legistlation Approved
- Food banks rise to highest numbers across the country
- Hospital Sued Over DNR on Man with Cerebral Palsy
- Councils are to house Homeless families from London elsewhere
- Blind people's benefits at risk - act now!
- iPads to diagnose Dementia!
- Drug Addicts and Alcoholics will lose sickness benefits if not seeking treatment
- People with learning disabilities need extra services but get access to less
- Creating millions of Dementia Friends
- London councils challenged on excuses for moving families on benefits
- Over 1,000,000 people claim Mental Health benefits
- Commemoration Service for Homeless people
- Schizophrenia Care needs urgent changes
- 57 new psychoactive drugs detected this year
- Incurable conditions are being disability assessed by ATOS
- Homeless shelter scrapped as it loses funding
- Spread the Warmth to Stop Older People from Suffering
- Minors held in police cells under Mental Health Act
- Local Authorities will have to start paying £7.3m for Youth Offending Services
- Rehabilitation Revolution for Offenders - or is it?
- G4S Asylum Seeker Housing Declared Unfit
- Another Remploy Factory to Close
- Scottish Older people may give up Safety Alarms after charges are added
- Schizophrenics receive inadequate care
- Streetlink urges you to report a rough sleeper
- Cameron Announces Dementia Champions
- Probation Services in the hands of Payment by Results
- Domestic Violence Campaign to help Scottish Muslims
- Issues for BME Disabled People
- Housing Benefits Cuts make Families Homeless
- Consistent Problems for Detainees
- No Second Night Out Scheme is Extended
- Charities Withdraw Placements as Disabled are Added to Work Scheme
- Drug user dies after contracting Anthrax
- Decrease in Homeless in Scotland may be undone by Cuts
- Birmingham brings Christmas to homeless people
- No Second Night Out Extends to York as homelessness rises
- Charities launch alcohol warnings
- Mental Health Treatment Requirement can address Offending
- Scotland Shake Up Homelessness
- Report shows repeated problems in Mental Health Care
- Complaints against privatising Probation Services
- DoH Guidance on Visual Impairments as a Disability
- Another Disability Factory has it's Funding Removed
- Will there be a new direction for older person care?
- New £6.5m Dementia Friendly Care Home
- Hearing Loss linked to cognitive decline
- Tackling Alcohol Abuse will Lower Suicides
- Domestic Violence increased by Sporting Events
- Cuts for Children with Mental Health Problems
- Older people will continue to receive Universal Benefits
- Police work with NHS over Mental Health
- Preventing Reoffending in Young People who Sexually Offend
- Cancer Patients will have benefits cut under welfare reform
- £10m invested in housing for learning disabilities
- Asylum Seekers let down by G4S
- Great Results in Probation Services Report - so why change?
- Tougher action on Alcohol Misuse could cut down on £55bn
- Social Workers Undertrained in effects of Substance Misuse
- Assaults and Escapes Rise as Prison Cuts Increase
- 2 year old at risk of Forced Marriage
- Psychiatric Wards Neglect Duty to Parents
- Dramatic Fall in Heroin and Crack Addicts
- Domestic Violence Figures Rise
- New blood test to detect Alzheimer's
- Mental Health Failings as Mother Smothers her Baby
- Alcohol pricing plan may be dropped
- Basic Care Doesn't Meet Standards
- People with Learning Disabilities Dying 16 Years Prematurely
- 25% of Councils Drop Numbers of AMPH
- Figures Show 12% Rise in Homeless Children
- Community Treatment Orders Fail to Reduce Readmissions
- Older People may have independence for longer in new Sheltered Housing
- Smokers with Mental Health Disorders are Overlooked
- Concerns over Mental Health in Prisons
- Repeat Offenders Will Not Just Receive a Caution
- £1.7m Initiative to Improve Homeless Services
- Budget Squeeze Results in Less AMHP
- Charities Help Parental Substance Misuse
- £4m funding to help rape victims rebuild their lives
- Shelter Report 40% Rise in Need for their Service
- 17 Year Olds in Custody Must be Treated as Children
- New implant to treat hereditary deafness
- Homeless Services impacted by Funding Cuts
- Empty Properties to House Homeless
- Report on Sex in Prisons shows Hidden Area
- Domestic Violence against Women: World Issues
- The UK spends £2bn housing homeless families in short-term accommodation
- Calls to Improve Domestic Violence Procedures
- £3m Spent on Housing Homeless in Hotels
- Scope launches scheme for philanthropists to sponsor charity shops
- Get Involved: Social Care Professionals wanting to Improve the Quality of Care
- The Changemakers - Community Impact for Learning Disabilities
- Support service to help communities with local investments
- Is social care a postcode lottery because of Localism?
- An extra £48bn public spending cuts are required by 2018
- Website to help care leavers live independently
- Localism will fail without work between Govt and Local Institutions
- Big Lottery Fund gives £200m in local awards
- LA's will be responsible for obese people's benefits
- Plans to combine NHS and Health and Social Care with ���£60bn
- Where should local authorities be spending money on troubled families?
- Impact of Social Housing on Local Economy
- Memory Lane project launched by Bradford Disability Advice
- Housing Association helps tackle Anti-Social Behaviour
- Scottish Councils say Welfare Reforms will Damage Communities
- Toolkit to help localise responsibility of Public Health
- Housing Minister's Speech on Localism
- Pilot fund of £250,000 open to charities in South West
- £50k funding for Social Impact projects
- Health Care moves towards the Private Sector
- £700,000 of funding to the volunteering charity CSV to help small charities
- Health Secretary asked to focus on social care as funding shortage is estimated at £892m
- Missing out on billions due to cuts in social care funding
- Councils will receive £11.6m to safeguard adults in hospitals
- New Fund to help Homeless Services Prepare for the Future
- Labour considers curbs on universal benefits to pay for social care
- Hunt says there will be a delay in funding older person care
- Fifteen partnerships in line for funding for people with complex needs
- White Paper has failed to address funding crisis
- £300m available to help house older people and adults with disabilities
- Hunt's Social Care Funding Figures are out of date!
- Norfolk Council give taxpayers a voice after losing funding
- £8m funding in Norfolk will go to helping vulnerable older people
- Need Investment in Social Workers instead of Further Cuts
- Charity Finance Group give £5000 funding
- Funding to LA's for public health higher than expected
- Government funding of £3.6m to tackle rough sleeping
- 81% cut to 'Supporting People' funding is largest ever
- Disabled Adults in Danger of Funding Black Hole
- Council to continue funding homelessness prevention
- Funding of £164m to Care for Long Term Conditions
- Funding Creates New Mental Health Support
- Cuts to Funding for Home Adaptions for Disabled People
- £800k Funding to get Social Tenants Online!
- Funding for Mental Health Projects
- Funding to improve social work practice is removed
- Housing Associations get part Government fund
- £10k funding for those working with adults/children with physical disabilities
- £750k Funding to Restoring Empty Homes
- £10m funding for hospital aftercare for the homeless
- £260m funding for hospitals to go digital
- Charities form Payment By Results discussion group
- Govt may stop benefits rising with inflation
- DWP review on Welfare Reform
- Shadow Employment Minister Stephen Timms has Slammed the Government's Welfare Reform Programme
- Govt to develop new method of measuring council performance
- Osborne to cut another £10bn from benefits
- Health Secretary under fire again
- Clegg does not back housing benefit age limit
- BMA doubts NHS reforms will save £5.5b, as Hunt claims
- How can the care reform survive in a climate of cuts?
- Calls for Independent Investigation on Atos
- MP for Northern Ireland requested further housing benefit concessions
- Political Party Launched for Anti-NHS reforms
- Welfare Minister says Benefits is a Lifestyle Choice
- Charities urge Osborne not to cut benefits for the poorest
- Bill to Cap Benefits Below Inflation is Passed
- Long-term Unemployed less likely to get jobs in Work Programme
- Benefits Squeezed Even Tighter in Autumn Statement
- Labour MPs warn benefit cap will hit poorest working families
- Critics Challenge Conservative Claims of Benefits Rising Too Much
- Survey shows support for benefit cuts is from those unaware
- Iain Duncan Smith defends welfare reforms
- Lib Dem MPs want to change Welfare Bill
- Have Disabled People been forgotten amid Social Care Reforms?
- 200,000 children will be in poverty due to Govt's benefit changes
- Lib Dem MP criticises Councils approach to poorest
- MP's blame DWP for Capability Test Failures
- Work Programme Declared as Breaking the Law
- Work Programme branded as Worse than Nothing
- Social Care Cap Brought Forward
- Archbishop says benefit changes will hit the poorest hardest
- Charities will need £1m for increased demand in food banks
- Social sector reviews on the 2013 Budget
- MPs express concern that bedroom tax could cost more than it saves
- Report shows growth of food poverty in London
- Disabled Claimants Take Legal Action Against PIP
- Reforms Will Not Solve Social Care Funding Problems
- Latest Developments on Benefit Cap & Direct Payments
- Exempt Accommodation Criteria and Risks
- Problems with Disability Testing
- Planning Successful Events for the Social Sector
- Achieving Greater Social Impact
- Social-Media Interactions for Victims of Domestic Violence
- Telehealth Can Give Patients Better Care
- Liberal Democrats propose building 250,000 council homes
- Value of Social Housing Still Falling
- Harriet Baldwin outlines exemptions to under-25s benefit cut
- Will single parents be forced back into their parents homes?
- Commons Committee publishes findings on financial viability of Social Housing Sector
- DWP confirms benefit limit only for future claimants
- Working Families on Housing Benefits Doubles
- Care and Support worker cuts in housing sector
- Housing association in Pilot scheme takes 5 tenants to court
- Going Home is not an option
- NHF asks Osborne to reject further welfare cuts
- Mental Health Problems can develop in poor housing
- Disabled could be kicked out for having adapted rooms
- Under 25s Benefit Cut Not Ruled Out
- Govt denies further council tax benefit cuts
- 230,000 households will be paying first council tax bill
- Bedroom Tax may lead to a rise in Homelessness
- 67,000 pensioners will get housing benefit cuts
- Welfare Reforms could cost £10m a year
- Home swapping to avoid being hit by benefit cuts
- DWP quash rumours that Bedroom Tax will change
- Bedroom Tax Criticised by MPs
- MPs Debate Unfairness of Bedroom Tax on Disabled People
- New Exemptions to Bedroom Tax!
- Housing Minister Protects Tenants Against Bedroom Tax
- Legal Action Against 'Discriminatory' Bedroom Tax
- Housing benefits will increase by £143m with Bedroom Tax
- Anger Across the UK at Bedroom Tax
- Charities call for people with Disabilities to be exempt from Bedroom Tax
- Poverty caused by Housing Costs is increasing
- Funding from DWP for Benefit Cap is not enough
- Housing Needs to Work Closer with Health and Social Care
- Bedroom Tax 'Discriminates' Against Disabilities
- Increased Demand for Emergency Welfare
- Full Impact of Housing Benefit Reforms Yet to Come
- Eligibility for Housing Benefit Puts Shelters Under Threat
- Job Vacancy | Development Officer | Royal Borough of Greenwich
- World First: Blind Woman Gains Partial Sight with Bionic Eye
- Threats to Strike in Public Sector after Pension Shake-up
- Community Care Blog: When whistleblowing and mental health stigma collided
- DWP Announce Closure of Another Remploy site
- New ways to measure child poverty
- Report slams treatment of Gypsies in Scotland
- Competition from Private Sector could save over £20bn
- Northamptonshire social care services "at risk from cuts"
- Paul Burstow accuses Treasury of blocking social care reforms
- How can social care tackle its image problem?
- Government signals national rollout of personal budgets with £1.5m cash injection
- Young Women Refused Entry to a Bus for being Epileptic
- Should service users have an entitlement to social work?
- Homeless people are likely to die thirty years earlier than the national average
- "Cuts will limit disabled people's independence"
- Study shows benefit cuts affect on Scottish communities
- "More welfare cuts will not reduce people's dependency on the state"
- Hundreds of council job losses due to additional budget cuts
- Blind Man Tasered After Policeman Mistakes his Stick for a Samurai Sword
- "Removing NHS management contributes to lack of expertise"
- Police cells over used to detain mentally ill people
- Poll shows worsening opinion of NHS reforms
- Health is being affected more in poorer areas
- Cuts to housing benefits making it difficult to foster
- Cracks begin to appears in NHS
- Cuts to benefits for wealthier claimants
- What is the best way to change the welfare system?
- Ending social housing joint tenancy
- Vulnerable jobseekers in work programme ignored
- Ageing Population will impact social services
- Campaign to Protect Whistleblowers
- Jeremy Hunt Criticises NHS
- Legal Action Taken over Deaths due to Poor Care
- Rumours of problems with G4S for asylum seekers
- Labour MP Comments on the Welfare Vote
- Refugee Charity Used to Fraud Millions
- 94% of Budget Cuts to Hit Women
- NHS under "colossal strain"
- A Disabled Woman Dies following NHS Mistakes
- Become a mentor for a Charity
- Big Society Capital to announce investments worth £32m
- Social Enterprise progress for the UK
- New DCLG minister backs call for LEPs to be funded
- Big Society Capital social investments
- Study into pension funds sets out agenda for "alternative" local investment
- Is this social investment's moment?
- Community Development Finance Association gets £60m to lend to social enterprises
- £7m Social Impact Bonds to Tackle Youth Unemployment
- Local investment from Council pensions could double
- £10m social investment funding for homeless people
- Social Enterprise awards for the sector
- Homeless Charities Given £5m in Payment By Results
- Mid-term Review on Big Society and Social Action
- Social enterprises are turning away from public services
- Mutual Public Service set up for adult health and social care
- Awards of £50-250k for social investors!
- How Social Enterprise Can Reduce Gang Violence
- New Law should make public bodies account for social value
- Remploy Workers want to buy Factory as Social Enterprise
- Social enterprise spending to reduce reoffending
- Social Enterprise to help those with learning difficulties is expanding!
- Charities and Businesses form New Social Enterprise
- Smartphone App Launched to End Deposit Disputes
- NHS Direct app used three million times
- Charities can benefit from #SocialMedia
- Victory over ATOS using Social Media
- MP tweets that "job centres are hubs for drugs"
- NICE App available for health and social care professionals
- Small charities lack time and skills to use social media effectively, survey finds
- Why Digital Exclusion is a Social Care Issue
- Online Advice Network for Charities
- Life-changing Funding Gives Social Media Training to Older People
- A future Social Media site for patients and their carers?
- Using Social Media to Improve Your Services
- Digital Deal Challenge Fund
- Charities missing out on £665m through Social Media
- Engage Your Community Through Text Messages
- Choosing your Carer Online!
- Fortnightly payments to stay under universal credit
- Universal credit set to go ahead despite heavy criticisms
- Universal Credit may undermine its own reforms
- DWP Criticised on Welfare Reforms
- Domestic Violence Refuges are exempt from Direct Benefit Payments
- More work needs to be done before introducing Universal Credit
- Universal Credit Redrafted - But is it Enough?
- "2 million would be better off refusing work with Universal Credit"
- Direct Payment Pilots fail to collect 8%
- Direct Payments are successful for the majority - but not all!
- Direct Payment Exemptions will be decided by DWP
- Universal Credit Falling Behind Schedule?
- Not enough Support for Online Universal Credit System
- Direct Payment Exemptions May Be Increased
- DWP Release Details for Universal Credit Roll Out
- Universal Credit is Not Ready Yet
- Direct Payments can now go to Landlord
- People in Social Housing Offered Recycled Computers
- Universal Credit will make "most people worse off"
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