The Local Government Association today published stark details of the impact on future council services of spending cuts, warning that some might be scrapped altogether.
Public sector workers are losing pride in their work and trust in their leaders as the government’s austerity programme bites, according to research published by management consultancy Hay Group.
Six Labour-dominated councils are to develop schemes to fully integrate health and social care services as part of the party’s plans to devise a ‘new settlement’ for the NHS, shadow health secretary...
Pressure on public sector budgets has led to a rise in zero-hours contracts, particularly in the care sector. The biggest losers are vulnerable service-users and staff on poor pay and insecure hours...
The proposed national eligibility threshold for social care is to be based on the current ‘substantial’ need level used by councils, care minister Norman Lamb has announced.
Local authorities face a further two years of the council tax freeze and a 10% budget cut in the Spending Review for 2015/16, Chancellor George Osborne has said.
Former care minister Paul Burstow has urged the government to set out a clear plan for the future of adult social care funding in the June 26 Spending Review.
The Treasury is clamping down on annually managed expenditure to cut the welfare bill. A far better strategy, argues James Lloyd, would be to split the DWP into two, with a ministry for working-age...
Little progress has been made on integrating health and social care services in England, which risks making services financially unsustainable in the future, senior NHS managers have warned.
Hospitals are to share £260m of additional funding to speed up the move to electronic patient records and prescriptions, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced.
The Department of Health, the NHS, local authorities and regulators have today signed a landmark agreement to integrate health and social care services within five years.
Councils' adult care budgets have been slashed by £2.7bn – a fifth of their funding – over the past three years, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services said today.
Disability campaigners have warned that more than half a million disabled people are set to lose out financially as benefit changes come into force this week.
From April 1, the health service embarks on an uncertain journey as the biggest structural reforms for decades get under way. Richard Lewis considers the risks and opportunities ahead
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt today announced changes in the inspection and regulation of NHS services following the care failings at Mid Staffordshire trust.
Health minister Norman Lamb talks to Judy Hirst about the Francis report on Mid-Staffs, Dilnot’s funding recommendations and joining up the dots on social care
The government has confirmed that the plans developed by the four ‘whole place’ Community Budget pilots across England will be implemented from next month.
The government is to ‘massively extend’ the tax-free childcare support available to working parents with young children, Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announced...
Local authorities could face a ‘deluge’ of legal challenges over social care services unless the government clarifies which costs count towards the planned lifetime cap on charges, MPs and peers...