One in four people mistakenly believes the Government will pay for all of their care in old age, according to a Department of Health survey. In addition, half of those questioned underestimated the true cost of moving into a care home in their twilight years by as much as £20,000.
The latest official figures on pollution show that carbon dioxide emissions have fallen in more than three-quarters of local authorities. The Department of Energy and Climate Change report covers the period from 2005 to 2007.
A 15-year decline in demand for care home places has come to an end ahead of a predicted surge, according to a new report on the UK independent care home industry.
Cyclists will be permitted to ride the wrong way along one-way streets under a change intended to encourage more people to give up their cars or use them less.
We are in a period of transition from all-encompassing external audit and inspection to a new model. We can’t tell yet what will come next but clearly much of the present settlement will be facing heavy scrutiny as a costly overhead.
Housing benefit reform may be too complex for this government but its likely Conservative successors will have no shortage of options if they take power next year.
Six local councils representing over 1.4 million people and a police authority have signed up the 10:10 climate change campaign. The new sign-ups, which include Cambridge, Nottingham and Coventry, boost the number of councils to 16, while Cheshire police is the first of the UK’s police forces to join the campaign.
In Westminster and town halls across the country, revolution is brewing. It threatens riots, possibly on the streets, certainly in cyberspace. Riots of protest, perhaps, and definitely a riot of information.
Cllr Edward Lister, the Conservative leader of Wandsworth Council will present a report to Hammersmith and Fulham Council’s Value for Money Scrutiny Committee on Tuesday. Here is a sneak preview.
Essex County Councils new social care trading company could earn the authority upwards of £3m a year in dividends and may take over the running of some local PCT services, bosses have revealed.