The proportion of patients found to be no longer eligible for health and social care costs following reassessment has risen by almost 30% in the past eight years – even though the criteria for...
Mandatory contributions on income tax from the age 34 are being put forward by Re:State as a radical alternative model for funding older people’s social care.
English councils are facing rising external debt and a fall in usable reserves following a 4.1% real-terms increase in spending on social care by local authorities in the past year, analysis has...
The chair of the Independent Commission into Adult Social Care has called for a national conversation about the issue, warning of a reliance on cobbled together and underfunded services.
England stands to learn important lessons from elsewhere in the UK on its care reform journey, as CIPFA and the LGIU’s second briefing on the subject reveals.
Private companies operating care services in just three English regions have made more than £250m in profits in three years, according to the latest analysis.
Any government reform to adult social care is doomed to fail unless ministers accept major investment is needed to overhaul a “broken” system, according to MPs.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves is under pressure to release an emergency bridging fund to reduce the impact of rising national insurance contributions on the care sector.
The financial position of Scotland’s integration joint boards has become increasingly precarious, with a funding gap of over £450m projected for this financial year, according to analysis.
Top tier councils spend over three-quarters of their net revenue expenditure on social care, according to analysis highlighting the intense strain on authorities in the face of surging demand and...
The government has set up a cross-party review of adult social care to propose ways to transform the sector, which has faced years of failed or unpopular proposals, and deal with one of the UK’s most...
Urgent action is needed to tackle a crisis in adult social care brought on by decades of inaction and short-term fixes, the government has been warned.
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...
The government is being urged to take “immediate and decisive” action to tackle a workforce crisis in adult social care that is putting councils under mounting financial strain.
The government scrapping “underfunded” adult social care charging reforms to save money does not solve major challenges the sector faces, and short-term fixes – including more funding – are needed...
Fragmented funding in the face of rising waiting lists and chronic understaffing has brought the adult social care sector “to its knees”, according to an influential group of MPs.
A forecast £57m gap in 2025-26 has forced Hampshire County Council to look at making huge cuts – even ones that “do not necessarily make sense” – to ensure the authority passes the “commissioner test...
Sustained long-term investment in community and social care is the key to managing NHS pressures, despite new government funding to speed up hospital discharging, experts have warned.
