Local authority funding for social care services fell by nearly one-third over the last parliament, an analysis by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services has found.
The Dilnot reforms to the social care funding system were supposed to have solved the problem. But do the changes provide value for money and can they endure?
Directors of adult social services have warned that a funding deal is not yet in place to implement the government’s flagship reforms to care provision, despite new duties coming into force today.
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.
Over half of total council tax revenue will be used to pay for social care by the end of the decade, the latest analysis of the future of council finance by the Local Government Association has...
Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has appointed Sir Derek Myers, former chief executive of Hammersmith and Fulham and the Kensington and Chelsea London boroughs, to lead the government’s...
Commissioners are to be sent in to run all the executive functions of Rotherham Borough Council following a damning report into the authority’s governance.
All but the poorest pensioners could be asked to contribute more under proposals for the biggest shake-up to the way health and social care is paid for since the NHS was founded
Proponents of ‘social insurance’ believe it is an answer to the huge policy challenge of caring for elderly people. But there is a fear that the recession might put an end to such radical...
