Action on Elder Abuse have reportedly warned that more than 3000 care homes throughout England do not have a registered manager, reflecting a crisis of quality in the sector.

Ofsted have proposed that future inspections of local authority children's services to consist of a two week, unannounced, on-site visit and to include direct observation and interaction with children and families.

Disability charities have reported to the government that a new medical test to assess eligibility for benefit is flawed and will lead to vulnerable claimants losing out.

A financial expert has reportedly warned that social care departments will struggle to maintain decent levels of service without additional funding from the government.

Care Quality Commission is reported to call time on light-touch regulation. A new plan revealed to Community Care suggests that services are to be inspected once a year under the new plan. Services are currently inspected once every two years.

Why use the Personal Outcomes Evaluation tool (POET)? Think Local, Act Personal (TLAP) says: Councils and providers need to demonstrate the difference being made to someone's life. This can be done by putting in place independent processes t...

A new low-cost programme for provider organisations wanting to further personalise their activity but needing help to do this.

Forty people across the North West have graduated from the latest Partners in Policymaking course.

The third independent interim evaluation report on the personal health budget pilot programme has been published by the Department of Health's personal health budget evaluation team (PHBE).

The Local Government Ombudsmen's annual report shows an increase of 73% in the number of complaints received about councils adult social care provision during the last year.