News and updates

Practical advice and guidance on how keep warm, healthy and safe during the winter period. 

There are many types of severe weather events that can have a serious local impact in the UK. During the winter this may result in storms, gales, low temperatures and heavy snow.

This information on the West Sussex County Council website provides practical advice and guidance on how to help you and your family keep warm, healthy and safe during the winter period.

The Care Quality Commission have now set out how they will drive the improvements needed to re-build trust in their regulation.

This involves making immediate changes to support their response to the recommendations in the interim report from Dr Penny Dash and to improve their ways of working ahead of the publication of the final report. These changes will help deliver:
• a clear and transparent programme of assessment and ratings
• quicker and more effective registration and assessments of providers
• simpler and clearer reports.

Visit the CQC website to read a summary of the immediate changes they are making. They will share more details soon of what is happening and when. This will include further information on the frequency of assessment and when we expect to carry out more assessments.

The Council has now published a decision regarding the review of fees and charges to independent care sector providers that sets the uplifted rates from April 2024 for the financial year 2024/25.  The Director of Adults and Health has approved the 2024/25 fee increases to independent sector providers in line with the proposals set out in section 2 of the report.  You can find this decision on the West Sussex County Council website.