Local government finance chiefs have raised concerns about pressures faced by both adult and children’s social care services ahead of the council funding settlement expected this week.
Ministers are considering allowing local authorities to levy a higher council tax precept to fund social care services ahead of the local government settlement.
Council and NHS leaders have lamented today’s Autumn Statement as a ‘missed opportunity’ to allay the burgeoning health and social care funding crisis.
Personal budgets for social care may result in worse outcomes for recipients as local authorities’ drive for savings is prioritised over good results for users, the Public Accounts Committee...
The Department of Health’s understanding of how to commission personalised adult social care services is outdated and inadequate, especially when money is tight, the National Audit Office has...
Councils in England are planning to raise an additional £372m in revenue to fund social care pressures, according to a Local Government Association analysis – however, the organisation is...
Two former health secretaries and the former Liberal Democrat care minister Norman Lamb have issued a joint call for a cross-party commission into the health and social care crisis.
Local government funding cuts are to ease in the years to 2019/20 compared to the last parliament and will be more evenly distributed across authorities, an analysis by the Institute for Fiscal...
Half of council finance directors are less confident in the ability to deliver savings than they were a year ago, a CIPFA survey ahead of this week’s Spending Review has found.
Former health secretary Stephen Dorrell has called for social care and public health funding to be protected in the forthcoming Spending Review, saying to cut these budgets while increasing NHS...
The current system of support for young people leaving care is failing some of the country’s most vulnerable people, the Public Accounts Committee has concluded today.
Integration of health and social care will require significant additional upfront funding to be successful, and the reform is not likely to lead to savings in the short-term, an analysis by CIPFA has...
Urgent steps must be taken to plug the funding gap in adult social care if councils are to continue to provide dignified care for elderly and disabled people, senior local government figures warned...
Groups representing commissioners, providers and users of adult social care have made a joint submission to the government’s Spending Review calling for support for older and disabled people to...
Buckinghamshire County Council set up a wholly owned company in 2013 to help it cut the cost of care provision while creating new revenue opportunities
If the forthcoming government Spending Review was able to protect three key areas of local government funding, councils would be better placed to respond to a range of cost pressures
Three councils are to face a judicial review following concerns that the authorities are favouring in-house foster services over those from external providers.
CIPFA has launched a new guide to the implementation of reforms to social care provision in Scotland that are designed to lead to greater personalisation of support.
Firms providing home care services across the UK have called on the Treasury to fully fund the £750m cost to the sector of the government’s new ‘living wage’ because they fear...
The government’s decision to pause the ‘capped cost’ care reforms for four years has probably killed off the policy, and represents a tragic waste of time and money for the care...