Adult social care consultation

The consultation period for the Adult Social Care project ended on 1 July 2010. The Law Commission received over 230 responses from a diverse range of individuals and organisations, which spanned service-users, carers, professionals, academics, non-governmental organisations, and both local and central government.    A number of the consultation responses are available online. The following are Read more…

Greetings from the Law Commission team. We are back on the blog after signing off during the election period. And what an election it was. We warmly congratulate the Secretary of State for Health, The Right Honourable Andrew Lansley CBE MP, and the new Minister of State for Care Services, Paul Burstow MP, on their Read more…

Members of the Public Law team at the Law Commission were delighted to attend a consultation event organised by Sense on Saturday 13 March to discuss our adult social care project. The Law Commission met with adults who are deafblind and family members with caring responsibilities for deafblind people to discuss some of our key Read more…

The Law Commission team has been busy consulting on its provisional proposals for the reform of adult social care law, in Liverpool, Wales and London this past week. I had the pleasure of attending the “International Big Event 2010” organised by In Control, which was held at the BT Convention Centre in Liverpool on Tuesday 16 March 2010… Read more…

Published on 4 March 2010: “We welcome the Law Commission’s commitment to thorough reform of social care law to ensure it becomes consistent, coherent and up-to-date. We recommend that the National Care Service be built on fresh legislative foundations, rather than created through further modifying and patching the existing framework, which is clearly no longer Read more…

On 5 March 2010, the Department of Health published new guidance on ordinary residence, entitled Ordinary residence: guidance on the identification of the ordinary residence of people in need of community care services, England. http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_113627 Are the ordinary residence rules are effective? Let us know what you think.

“Commission proposes to lower the threshold for assessments:

The Law Commission is to draft a single adult social care law, which could save social workers time and make service users’ rights clearer.

The Commission has today published consultation proposals on how it plans to take over 38 existing community care laws and combine them into a single statute…” Read more…

“Wednesday, 24 Feburary 2010

The Law Commission published its consultation paper on adult social care today. Tim Spencer-Lane, a lawyer in its public law team, explains the thinking behind the proposed overhaul…” Read more…

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