Education Secretary Michael Gove has urged local authorities to take more at-risk children into care, saying an increase in young people being looked after by councils was not a cause for concern.
The four ‘whole place’ Community Budget pilots in England have submitted their final reports, urging the government to approve their proposals for the next stage.
Procedures for delivering children’s care services are loaded in favour of local authority provision and are failing vulnerable Scottish youngsters, an alliance of third and private sector providers...
The government plans to cap individual social care costs as soon it can ensure there is a ‘sustainable‘ plan for care funding in place, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt revealed today.
Labour would create a ‘one budget’ health and social care system to ensure better integration between the different types of care, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said today.
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls today called on the government to use the £4bn windfall from the sale of the next generation of mobile phone licences to build 100,000 new homes.
Failure to reform adult social care funding could leave the NHS short of cash and have a ‘severe impact’ on the quality of patient care, the NHS Confederation warned today.
Plans to reform funding of adult social care concentrate ‘too much on the inheritances of the children of elderly people’, rather than improving quality, veteran Conservative MP John Redwood said...
The Care Quality Commission has admitted ‘failing’ in its response to concerns about abuse at the Winterbourne View home, after an independent review called for better monitoring of services for...
Community Budgets should be extended to all local authorities in England to ensure that town halls and the NHS better integrate the provision of adult social care services, a cross-party group of MPs...
A decision on how long-term care is funded in England will not be taken until the next Spending Review, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley confirmed today.
Reforms to the system of adult social care to be unveiled today by the government represent the ‘best opportunity in a generation’ to improve care for the elderly, the Local Government Association...
People might have to pay for some NHS services once the health and social care systems are integrated, the deputy director of the Reform think-tank told CIPFA conference delegates
The growing costs of councils’ care and statutory responsibilities will wipe out any funding for other services within eight years unless Whitehall provides urgent cash, the Local Government...
Some benefits paid to pensioners should be means-tested to meet the costs of reforms to adult social care, the Institute for Fiscal Studies said today.
A ‘major cultural shift’ is needed to tackle the causes of poor treatment of elderly people in English care homes and hospitals, the Commission on Improving Dignity in Care for Older People said...