[...] Variations In Access To Social Care (20/06/12): Research to the CRC by our Commissioner, Professor Sheena Asthana, suggests that people’s access to social care is subject to systematic geographical variation. Rural Authorities, which tend to have older and less deprived populations receive lower grant allocations, spend less on social care, charge more for home care and allocate lower personal budgets than local authorities serving younger, more urban and more deprived populations. http://www.defra.gov.uk/crc/variations-in-access-to-social-care/ [...]

[...] context – and hot off the press – the Commission for Rural Communities (CRC) has published research on access to social care.  The Report investigates social care expenditure across local authority [...]

[...] care for vulnerable older people in England: is there a rural dimension? – can be downloaded here. Print [...]