CIPFA has joined forces with the Healthcare Financial Managers Association and the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services to discuss what their members can do to progress the integration...
Integration of health and social care funding is a necessity to meet the funding challenge of an ageing population, local government minister Brandon Lewis and care minister Norman Lamb have said...
Councils have been urged to ‘reclaim’ children’s services provision from control by Whitehall departments and inspectors so town halls can act as the local champions of the interests of children,...
The government has insisted its plan to integrate health and social care spending through the Better Care Fund remains on track to be introduced next year despite concerns about implementation.
Councils must step up their efforts to make sure the needs of looked-after children living far away from their family, friends and communities are met, Ofsted said today.
A report by the Scottish Parliament’s in-house research unit has cast serious doubt on the financial assumptions underpinning Alex Salmond’s promise of a ‘transformative’ expansion in childcare...
Health and social care spending should be a merged into a single ring-fenced budget as the current split between the NHS and local government is no longer fit for purpose, a commission has concluded
Most local authorities have increased the rationing of social care for the over-65s in response to government cuts, leading to significant drops in the number of people receiving home-delivered meals...
Ministers have announced an increase in the amount of money that the government will provide to subsidise childcare as part of Chancellor George Osborne’s Budget
The government and councils do not know if the limits of the adult social care system to provide quality care are being reached as demand rises and funding is squeezed, auditors have warned.
Health and social care services have failed to keep pace with dramatic demographic changes and need to be radically remodelled, the King’s Fund said today
The likelihood of some English councils becoming unviable has been increased by a funding system that favours the wealthiest parts of the country. To avoid a financial crisis, the government must...
GP practices must join together to form primary care networks if attempts to shift health services away from hospitals and into the community are to succeed, according to the King’s Fund
The Department of Health has accused the Local Government Association of making ‘misleading’ claims about the cost of planned universal deferred payment agreements for adult social care
Birmingham City Council has confirmed it is considering the sale of the National Exhibition Centre as part of an asset disposal programme intended to meet the cost of equal pay claims
The Local Government Ombudsman still needs to raise its game ‘significantly’ if it is to become an efficient arbitrator of complaints about council services, the communities and local government...
Monitor is to regulate independent providers of NHS-funded care services for the first time in order to protect patients from financial failures, following the collapse of the Southern Cross care...
A government top-slice of council funding for early intervention projects could lead to cuts in services intended to protect vulnerable children, authorities have warned today