The social care inspectorate said that local councils should rethink how they organized home care visits, in order to give care workers more time to respond to individual needs. Care visits were often too rushed to allow a safe and dignified service.
Source: Time to Care? An overview of home care services for older people in England, 2006, Commission for Social Care Inspection (0845 015 0120)
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Date: 2006-Oct
A report said that the government had already exceeded its target for increasing (by March 2006) the number of elderly people supported intensively to live at home (to 30 per cent of the total being supported by social services at home or in residential care). The target had been extended, to 34 per cent by March 2008.
Source: Summary of the Public Service Agreement (PSA) Target on Home Care 2004/05, NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre (0845 300 6016)
Links: Report | DH press release
Date: 2006-Jan