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26 Feb 19
Children’s services in England are at “breaking point” as funding has been slashed by nearly a third since 2010, charities have warned.
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21 Feb 19
Local authority spending on unaccompanied asylum seeker children has doubled over the four years, analysis of government figures has revealed.
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20 Feb 19
Health and social care will best be integrated when there is a joint understanding of finance and governance across organisational boundaries, says CIPFA’s Eleanor Roy and HFMA’s Emma Knowles.
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23 Jan 19
The government should know more about why council spending on children’s social care in England is increasing, the National Audit Office has said.
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11 Jan 19
Central government does not have “sufficient oversight” of social care needs assessments across England, an NGO has said.
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9 Jan 19
The health secretary intends to publish the much-anticipated social care green paper before the end of the financial year, he told the Commons.
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8 Jan 19
A social work charity has been given £45m in government money to train 900 children’s social workers over the next three years.
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21 Dec 18
This year was another missed opportunity for the government to fix the adult social care system - it can not duck this important issue in 2019, the president of the Association of Directors of Adult...
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17 Dec 18
Charities have expressed disappointment over the government’s decision to delay the adult social care green paper once again.
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11 Dec 18
Low fees paid by councils to providers have left the home care sector in a “fragile state”, the King’s Fund has warned.
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7 Dec 18
A 2.5% income tax on the over-40s could raise up to £15bn every year to fund social care, a study has found.
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19 Nov 18
The rising number of children in care places “huge demand” on councils and reinforces the need for greater funding for children’s services, council leaders have said.
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15 Nov 18
Social care was the largest area of increased expenditure for local authorities in the last financial year, government figures have revealed.
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15 Nov 18
National tax rises are needed to support adult social care, which is now at “breaking point”, the Local Government Association has said.
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14 Nov 18
Austerity is not over for older and disabled people as a survey reveals the strain on council adult social care budgets, an umbrella group has claimed.
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8 Nov 18
Ministers are finally listening to local government and last week’s Budget represented a series of strategic victories for the sector, says James Maker of the County Councils Network.
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8 Nov 18
Children’s services are at a “tipping point” as social services in England take on 1,000 new child cases every day, councils have warned.
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26 Oct 18
The government must start a campaign to raise the profile of adult social care so people are prepared to pay for it - as many do not know what it is, an umbrella-group has revealed.
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17 Oct 18
CIPFA has replenished its health and social care team with two key appointments to help lead its work on integration.
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8 Oct 18
The NHS and councils need to collaborate to develop a system to support children with mental health problems, the Local Government Association has said.
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8 Oct 18
The government must inspect financially struggling councils to ensure they are fulfilling their social care duties, an umbrella group for disability charities has urged.
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2 Oct 18
The health secretary’s promise of £240m extra to help keep older people out of hospitals this winter has been called a “partial fix” by council and social care leaders.
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27 Sep 18
The Care Quality Commission should come up with a more bespoke approach to inspection to improve the regulatory process, a health think-tank has suggested.
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25 Sep 18
The proportion of adult social care workers in England leaving their jobs has increased 7.6% over the five years to 2017-18, according to workforce figures.
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25 Sep 18
The government must make tax more popular to properly fund social care, a prominent academic has told the Labour conference.