Caring and Support News
Consultation on Special Guardianship Regulations
The Department of Social Care (DSC) is launching a consultation to invite comments on draft Special Guardianship Regulations made under the Children & Young...
Friday, 24 January 2014
Plans for rehabilitation and resettlement centre
The Department of Home Affairs is seeking planning permission to convert Grianagh Court into a rehabilitation and resettlement centre.
An application has been...
Friday, 3 January 2014
Isle of Man Government provides emergency aid for UK humanitarian charities
The International Development Committee (IDC) of the Isle of Man Government has pledged a total of £50,000 in response to three emergency appeals for...
Monday, 23 December 2013
Disability Discrimination Act - Update
The Minister for Social Care today made the following statement to Tynwald providing an update on the implementation of the Disability Discrimination Act...
Tuesday, 10 December 2013
Regulation of Care Act - Update
The Department of Social Care is today laying before Tynwald, the Appointed Day Order that will start the conversion of “currently regulated services” and the...
Tuesday, 10 December 2013
Launch of Fair Access to Care Services
The Department of Social Care would like to announce that from 2 December 2013 all new referrals to Adult Services will be assessed under the Fair Access to...
Monday, 2 December 2013
Arbitrator determines pay award for health and social care staff
Following arbitration through the Manx Industrial Relations Service, a pay award for 2011/12 and 2012/13 has been determined for staff within the Department of...
Friday, 29 November 2013
A new approach to service delivery at Markwell House
As the move away from universal benefits towards a much more targeted approach to individual need begins to pick up pace, the Department of Social Care takes...
Tuesday, 26 November 2013
Isle of Man Government pledges money for Philippines disaster
The Government’s International Development Committee has agreed to provide £100,000 in emergency aid funding in response to the Typhoon Haiyan disaster that has...
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
Chief Minister writes to Ambassador of the Philippines
Chief Minister Allan Bell MHK has written to the Ambassador of the Philippines in London to express the Isle of Man’s sympathies following the devastation...
Tuesday, 12 November 2013
