English councils are allocating larger proportions of their budget to adult social care while spending less on the area in real terms, according to two reports.
The NHS and adult social care sector should work more closely together – and the latter should be funded in a similar way to the health service, local government figures have heard.
Revenue from council tax and business rates in England will not keep pace with a growing social care need – and the funding gap is likely to significantly increase, the Institute for Fiscal Studies...
The next chief executive of the Care Quality Commission will inherit an organisation with “persistent weaknesses and looming challenges”, MPs have warned.
The government will send a commissioner into Buckinghamshire County Council’s children’s services after the department was branded ‘inadequate’ by Ofsted.
A £2bn funding gap in children’s social services must be rectified to deal with growing referrals related to domestic abuse, according to the Local Government Association.
The head of the National Audit Office has warned that social care in England is a “Cinderella service” in danger of collapse and needs more attention from ministers.
Councils in England will receive an extra £150m for adult social care next year, Sajid Javid announced today as he confirmed the local government finance settlement for 2018-19.
Leading local government figures are warning multiple councils could be at risk of financial collapse after a county council dramatically imposed emergency spending controls.
Hidden hunger and malnutrition among older people has reached such a scale that social care providers should be put under a new duty to deal with it, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Hunger has...
Care Quality Commission chief executive Sir David Behan has announced that he is to step down from the role in the summer after six years at the inspectorate.
CIPFA has called for urgent action on children’s social care as a survey out today revealed the duty has become the chief concern of upper tier council finance heads.
The UK’s rising social care costs could be met by raising national insurance contributions by 1%, which would yield £5bn a year, research has suggested.