Industry News

• NYA to help broker council contracts

  Source: Children & Young People Now

  9 November 2010

  Children and Young People Now reports that the National Youth Agency (NYA) has launched a partnership to encourage councils to commission voluntary organisations. Read more...

• Door opened for cheaper care provision

  Source: Community Care

  9 November 2010

  Community Care reports that experts are warning that social care service users could find their services being cut as councils look for the cheapest way of meeting their needs. Read more...

• Reoffending rate by prison

  Source: The Guardian

  8 November 2010

  The Guardian reports that for the first time, the Ministry of Justice have put together a list of reoffenders and reconviction rates of all prisons in the UK in a publication called the Compendium of Reoffending Statistics and Analysis (CRSA), using figures from the Office of National Statistics. Read more...

• Work scheme for long-term jobless

  Source: BBC News

  8 November 2010

  BBC News reports, in this video, that people who have been claiming benefits long-term could have to take part in month-long manual labour projects, under government proposals. Work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith will outline plans for the community work placements as part of the Welfare Reform... Read more...

• Ken Clarke's prison reforms will spare mentally ill offenders jail

  Source: The Guardian

  8 November 2010

  The Guardian reports that thousands of criminals with serious mental illnesses or drug addictions will no longer be sent to prison but will instead be offered "voluntary" treatment in hospital, under controversial proposals to be unveiled tomorrow. Read more...

• Councils to get hands on most of NHS £1bn for social care

  Source: Community Care

  8 November 2010

  Community Care reports that councils will get their hands on the majority of £1bn in annual NHS funding for social care over the next four years, and will be able to use it to help prop up existing care services, health secretary Andrew Lansley has said. Read more...