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10 Feb 21
Local authorities require long-term funding certainty to help implement changes to the social care system, according to a new report.
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3 Feb 21
A report showing healthy profits for independent providers of children’s residential care while councils struggle underlines the need for reform, says Judith Blake chair of the Local Government...
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18 Jan 21
Councils in England are set to receive an additional £120m in adult social care funding from central government to help boost staffing levels in care homes.
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4 Dec 20
Could systems in other countries offer direction to UK policymakers looking to reset the relationship between health and social care?
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17 Nov 20
The government is set to provide an update on progress towards reforming the social care system “following the forthcoming Spending Review”, it has said.
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22 Oct 20
Social care provision should remain outsourced despite the problems in the sector, King’s Fund director of policy Sally Warren told a Public Finance Live conference session on care reform after Covid...
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21 Oct 20
Covid-19 exacerbated the already stark problems faced by the social care sector, but offers an opportunity to change course in some areas, a Public Finance Live session has been told.
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7 Sep 20
Annual spending on adult social care in England, based on a spend-per-person basis, is currently £600m lower than in 2010, according to a report by the TUC.
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24 Aug 20
As more service users are brought into the process of designing services, funding decisions must be devolved to the local level
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24 Aug 20
A raft of evidence shows the importance of tackling poor housing conditions in preventing children needing support from local authority care services
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24 Aug 20
Commissioners of children’s services need to anticipate future demand to ensure ongoing resilience
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14 Aug 20
A care leader has voiced disappointment that a government pledge of £300m to help the NHS prepare for winter has not been matched by similar funding for care homes.
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3 Aug 20
The Welsh government is to allocate an additional £22.7m in funding for adult social care services, to help meet the additional costs resulting from Covid-19.
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28 Jul 20
MPs have demanded the government sets out plans to end years of treating social care as the NHS’s “poor relation” within three months.
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12 Jun 20
Almost all of adult social care directors feel they require additional funding to help them cope with Covid-19, according to a survey from the Association of Directors of Adult Social Care.
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12 Jun 20
Covid-19 has made the interdependence between social care and the NHS clear, and we need to move forward with that interdependence in mind, argues CIPFA's Dr Eleanor Roy.
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9 Jun 20
An increase to taxes and making more people eligible for free care will not be enough to fix the social care system, which is “unfit for purpose”, a report from think-tank the Adam Smith Institute...
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5 Jun 20
With the social care crisis having been exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, CIPFA's health and social care policy manager Dr Eleanor Roy outlines some essential requirements to help the...
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2 Jun 20
The government’s rollout of the Infection Control Fund for care homes has been branded “confusing” and “unnecessarily bureaucratic” by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Care Services.
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28 May 20
The House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee has urged the government to end its delay on social care reform.
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12 May 20
Care homes could be forced to close if councils cannot meet the ballooning costs caused by the coronavirus outbreak, the head of a care-home provider has warned.
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27 Mar 20
Brexit will make recruitment even more difficult for a sector already struggling to find staff
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10 Mar 20
MPs have launched an inquiry to establish exactly how much more money the social care sector needs to drag itself out of its “longstanding crisis”.
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9 Mar 20
Health secretary Matt Hancock has written to MPs and peers asking for their views on adult social reforms, as the government attempts to reach a cross-party consensus.
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4 Mar 20
Almost half of councils overspent on their adult social care budget in 2018/19, while 82% of councils overspent exceeding their financial plans for children’s social care, according to research from...