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12 Jun 20
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.
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2 Jun 20
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.
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17 Apr 20
Government proposals to provide additional support to the adult social care sector in England have been met with a lukewarm response.
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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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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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29 Aug 19
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.
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26 Jun 19
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.
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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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13 Jun 18
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.
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22 Jul 16
Tributes have been paid to Harold Bodmer, president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, whose sudden death was announced this week.
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13 Jul 16
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...
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9 Dec 15
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.
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12 Oct 15
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...
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4 Jun 15
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.
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12 Jul 13
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...