Local authorities may be missing out on opportunities to prevent ill-health and boost wellbeing because they are struggling to make the investment case for preventative digital care.
More than four in five councils are expected to overspend their adult social care budgets this year, according to a new survey which reveals the “growing and urgent” strain under which services are...
Councils will need £8.3bn more funding to meet care demand in 2032-33, but this number would need to more than double if authorities are to improve care access and fund reforms, the Health Foundation...
Any ambition to fix the social care sector will fail without sufficient political will to provide a sustainable long-term funding settlement, service leaders have warned.
Plans to halve proposed funding to revitalise the social care workforce show the government is not serious about improving and investing in the sector, experts have said.
The government has been urged not to blame social care capacity for delays to hospital discharge, and to ensure the sector has enough funding to meet demand.
The cost-of-living crisis is set to exacerbate existing funding constraints for councils and the social care market, and more central government funding will be necessary to avoid a winter crisis,...
Almost all of adult social care directors feel they require additional funding to help them cope with Covid-19, according to a survey from the Association of Directors of Adult Social Care.
The government’s rollout of the Infection Control Fund for care homes has been branded “confusing” and “unnecessarily bureaucratic” by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Care Services.
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.
If the chancellor does not continue to pay temporary grants for social care next financial year councils in England will be forced to decommission services, an umbrella group has warned.
Just over a third of adult social care directors in England think they have the funds to meet statutory duties this financial year, a damning survey has revealed.
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...
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.
Tributes have been paid to Harold Bodmer, president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, whose sudden death was announced this week.
The introduction of a council tax precept to boost social care funding will fail to cover the extra costs faced by the sector from the National Living Wage according to the Association of Directors...
The health and care sector is demanding urgent Whitehall talks over what it says is a funding crisis despite Chancellor George Osborne authorising council tax increases to pay for provision.
Urgent steps must be taken to plug the funding gap in adult social care if councils are to continue to provide dignified care for elderly and disabled people, senior local government figures warned...
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.
Integration of health and social care was always going to be tough, but never before has there been such an unambiguous commitment to it, from the top of Whitehall down to town and county hall, GP...
