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15 Nov 19
The next government should spend an extra £20bn a year by 2030 for free personal care for all in England, funded by an increase in general taxation, a think-tank has said.
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14 Nov 19
The cost of social care for people with dementia will almost triple over the next twenty years as the result of a sharp increase in the number of people suffering from an acute form of the condition.
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13 Nov 19
Protecting social care spending has forced English councils to cut other services by 40% in the last 10 years, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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8 Nov 19
Council tax revenue will lag far behind the cost of providing key services, such as adult social care, even if the tax increased by 4% a year until 2024-25, according to the Institute for Fiscal...
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15 Oct 19
Two London councils’ shared children’s services have received a second ‘outstanding’ rating from Ofsted.
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15 Oct 19
Ten per cent of services for those with learning disabilities and autism were rated as inadequate up to September this year compared to just 1% in 2018, according to the Care Quality Commission.
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11 Oct 19
The upcoming Queen’s Speech must be used to provide a long-term solution for social care, umbrella groups have said.
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11 Oct 19
Westminster cannot properly reform welfare without addressing the lack of support given to vital informal carers, says Bright Blue’s Anvar Sarygulov.
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2 Oct 19
Cross-party working is required to fix the social care system, a conference event has heard.
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26 Sep 19
The integration of health and social care in Scotland is causing “severe difficulty” within the care sector, MSPs have been told.
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24 Sep 19
Labour’s policy for providing free personal care for over 65s does not appear to protect against longer-term “catastrophic costs”, an assistant director of the Health Foundation told an audience at...
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23 Sep 19
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has pledged to implement free personal care in England to tackle the “national scandal” in social care.
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10 Sep 19
Social care is a “hidden scandal” that the public does not fully understand, a think-tank event has been told.
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9 Sep 19
Every council in England should provide specialist autism support, a cross-party group of MPs has urged.
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5 Sep 19
Social care needs a government-sponsored ‘national care service’ to tackle the issue of underinvestment in employees in the sector, MPs have said.
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2 Sep 19
The prime minister’s £3.5m package for councils, expected to be announced in this week’s Spending Round, would be a “very welcome contribution” if it is not money that has already been announced.
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27 Aug 19
Funding shortages and increased demand pressure meant that local authorities had to spend £770m more than planned on children’s services in 2018-19, according to the Local Government Association.
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22 Aug 19
A leaked government document has raised fears that a no-deal Brexit could worsen the already “perilous” state of the social care sector.
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21 Aug 19
Adult social care in London faces a budget gap of £540m by 2025 unless a national funding shortfall in the sector is addressed, according to new research.
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15 Aug 19
A petition signed by more than 150,000 individuals has been given to the prime minister to urge him to deliver on his promise to “fix” the social care system.
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13 Aug 19
Nearly two-thirds of looked after children are cared for by local authorities with substandard services, a think-tank has found.
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2 Aug 19
The care system has come under increasing strain in the last five years because of a huge rise in the number of teenagers going into care, according to analysis.
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1 Aug 19
The King’s Fund’s Sally Warren explains why she is not as delighted as she might be by Boris Johnson’s pledge to fix social care.
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30 Jul 19
Northamptonshire County Council’s children services are “failing to keep children safe”, a watchdog has concluded.
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5 Jul 19
The long-awaited social care green paper is being delayed by “partisan politics”, the health secretary has claimed.
15 Nov 19The next government should spend an extra £20bn a year by 2030 for free personal care for all in England, funded by an increase in general taxation, a think-tank has said.
14 Nov 19The cost of social care for people with dementia will almost triple over the next twenty years as the result of a sharp increase in the number of people suffering from an acute form of the condition.
13 Nov 19Protecting social care spending has forced English councils to cut other services by 40% in the last 10 years, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
8 Nov 19Council tax revenue will lag far behind the cost of providing key services, such as adult social care, even if the tax increased by 4% a year until 2024-25, according to the Institute for Fiscal...
15 Oct 19Two London councils’ shared children’s services have received a second ‘outstanding’ rating from Ofsted.
15 Oct 19Ten per cent of services for those with learning disabilities and autism were rated as inadequate up to September this year compared to just 1% in 2018, according to the Care Quality Commission.
11 Oct 19The upcoming Queen’s Speech must be used to provide a long-term solution for social care, umbrella groups have said.
26 Sep 19The integration of health and social care in Scotland is causing “severe difficulty” within the care sector, MSPs have been told.
23 Sep 19Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has pledged to implement free personal care in England to tackle the “national scandal” in social care.
10 Sep 19Social care is a “hidden scandal” that the public does not fully understand, a think-tank event has been told.
9 Sep 19Every council in England should provide specialist autism support, a cross-party group of MPs has urged.
27 Aug 19Funding shortages and increased demand pressure meant that local authorities had to spend £770m more than planned on children’s services in 2018-19, according to the Local Government Association.
2 Aug 19The care system has come under increasing strain in the last five years because of a huge rise in the number of teenagers going into care, according to analysis.
30 Jul 19Northamptonshire County Council’s children services are “failing to keep children safe”, a watchdog has concluded.
5 Jul 19The long-awaited social care green paper is being delayed by “partisan politics”, the health secretary has claimed.
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