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8 Jan 20
The number of children in care has increased by nearly a third in the last decade leaving the system under pressure, the Local Government Association has said.
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16 Dec 19
Health and social care services in Scotland face a “very significant” challenge to their financial sustainability against a backdrop of local government funding cuts that have seen councils...
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9 Dec 19
Labour has costed its pledge of free personal care for older people and working age adults at £10bn by 2023-24.
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2 Dec 19
Louise Tickle looks at why, when the The Children Act 1989 continues to be described as visionary, so many children are still waiting for the protections it prescribed three decades ago.
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28 Nov 19
As many as 90,000 care workers will be needed immediately to fulfil social care manifesto commitments to expand and reform social care, a charity has said.
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25 Nov 19
The Conservatives have been criticised for a “shameful omission” of clear plans on social care in the party’s manifesto.
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22 Nov 19
A charity has blasted the government for the time it has “wasted” on drawing up a social care paper that still has not materialised.
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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.
8 Jan 20The number of children in care has increased by nearly a third in the last decade leaving the system under pressure, the Local Government Association has said.
16 Dec 19Health and social care services in Scotland face a “very significant” challenge to their financial sustainability against a backdrop of local government funding cuts that have seen councils...
9 Dec 19Labour has costed its pledge of free personal care for older people and working age adults at £10bn by 2023-24.
2 Dec 19Louise Tickle looks at why, when the The Children Act 1989 continues to be described as visionary, so many children are still waiting for the protections it prescribed three decades ago.
28 Nov 19As many as 90,000 care workers will be needed immediately to fulfil social care manifesto commitments to expand and reform social care, a charity has said.
25 Nov 19The Conservatives have been criticised for a “shameful omission” of clear plans on social care in the party’s manifesto.
22 Nov 19A charity has blasted the government for the time it has “wasted” on drawing up a social care paper that still has not materialised.
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.
