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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
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.
