Health and social care will best be integrated when there is a joint understanding of finance and governance across organisational boundaries, says CIPFA’s Eleanor Roy and HFMA’s Emma Knowles.
Without asking people to pay more, the government will have to rein in the public's expectations on what public services they can hope to get, says the IFG’s Graham Atkins.
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...
The chancellor told the Commons austerity is “coming to an end” today, announcing funding boosts for the Ministry of Defence to the tune of £1bn and adult social care of £650m.
The government must start a campaign to raise the profile of adult social care so people are prepared to pay for it - as many do not know what it is, an umbrella-group has revealed.
The NHS and councils need to collaborate to develop a system to support children with mental health problems, the Local Government Association has said.
Local Government Information Unit's chief executive Jonathan Carr-West mulls over what came out of the Conservative Party Conference for the public sector.
The proportion of adult social care workers in England leaving their jobs has increased 7.6% over the five years to 2017-18, according to workforce figures.
Social care needs a system such as the childcare voucher scheme, says the co-founder of an international nursery chain John Woodward. He was also the architect of the childcare voucher scheme....
Three-quarters of adults in England back free personal care for over 65s, and the majority think this should be funded by tax hikes, a survey has found.
England has been “left behind” as other countries get on with modernising their social care systems for an increasingly ageing population, campaigners said today.
An improvement in the rate at which people ready to leave hospital are transferred into adult social care has saved the NHS £60m, according to sector leaders.
Bed blocking because of a lack of social care availability is costing the NHS an “eye-watering” £550 per minute, according to research by a charity released today.
The recently announced £20bn a year NHS funding boost will not be enough to meet the needs of the UK’s growing and changing population, the head of the National Audit Office has told The Guardian.