Local authorities will not have the necessary resources to sustain current social care eligibility levels, the Commons health select committee has warned
Welfare reform is crucial to the coalition’s agenda. But ministers’ plans are driven by cuts rather than consistent principles, while Labour seems out of touch. Policy thinkers Gavin Kelly and Nick...
Social care services should not have to suffer because of the spending cuts imposed in last month’s Comprehensive Spending Review, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has said.
Auditors have called for action to improve housing and support services for people with mental health needs in Wales, after finding an ‘unacceptable’ lack of progress on the issue
Should the public sector start drowning its sorrows as the cuts kick in? Doom merchants certainly seem to think so. But perhaps in reality the glass is half full and not half empty. Tony Travers...
The government has defended its decision not to ring-fence new council funding for adult social care, despite concerns that it will not be used as intended.
The decision by three West London boroughs to merge services does not amount to a 'super council' as has been reported, the local authorities have said
