Councils with poorly performing children’s social services will have the departments taken over by other authorities or charities under plans set out by David Cameron today.
Many parts of England could face a shortage of care home beds in future years due to closures triggered by council funding cuts, according to an analysis for upper-tier local authorities.
Lord Laming is to chair an independent review considering why looked-after children are over-represented in the criminal justice system in England and Wales.
A poll of more than 300 NHS chief executives has found that nearly all believe that reductions in social care funding are leading to increased pressures on the health service.
Three-quarters of outgoing MPs support the ringfencing of adult social care funding in the next parliament, a poll by the Local Government Association has found.
English counties are today calling for the devolution of health and social care systems, warning that centralised NHS structures are causing barriers between services.
A deal to devolve £6bn of NHS funding to Greater Manchester’s combined authority has been sealed, with the groundbreaking pact set to devolve all health spending in an effort to improve...
Changes made to the Better Care Fund, which allowed some pooled money to be used to provide NHS services, nearly led councils to walk away from the scheme, it has been revealed.
The Greater Manchester combined authority is to be given complete control over all health spending in the city region in a groundbreaking devolution deal to be announced later this week.
Public services spend almost £17bn a year on addressing the impact of a host of social problems affecting young people, a study by the Early Intervention Foundation has found.
Government and councils have been urged to consider how expansion of payment-by-results systems to pay for public services can work for vulnerable people with multiple needs.
Health and social care integration must eventually be expanded to cover all public spending for these services, rather than just applying to the £5.3bn pooled in the Better Care Fund, former health...
Over half of all home care workers are on zero-hour contracts, and as many as 220,000 could be paid less than the National Minimum Wage, a study has found.
Auditors say the Department for Education is not able to hold local authorities to account for their spending on children in care because central government does not have indicators to measure the...
Public service ombudsmen today launched a drive to improve the consistency of complaint handling across NHS and social care services in response to the care failings at the Mid Staffordshire hospital...
Early plans to integrate local health and social care services through the Better Care Fund are ‘inadequate’ and fail to match the scale of its ambition, the National Audit Office warned today.
Care minister Norman Lamb has revealed that an expanded version of the government’s flagship Better Care Fund will be the likely mechanism to fully integrate health and care spending across the...
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced that nearly all of the 151 Better Care Fund plans in England have been approved ahead of implementation of the reform from next April.
Local authorities face a £4.3bn gap in adult social care funding by the end of the decade due to increasing demand for services and cuts in funding, an analysis has found.
Councils have urged Chancellor George Osborne to use the Autumn Statement to ensure that sufficient funding is provided to town halls for the implementation of the Care Act.
The government scheme offering free pre-school places for infants has helped only a small number of women into work, a study by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found.
The disparity in the quality of health and care services in England is ‘unacceptable’, the Care Quality Commission had concluded, with safety of provision the watchdog’s biggest concern in its annual...