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22 Jan 18
Hidden hunger and malnutrition among older people has reached such a scale that social care providers should be put under a new duty to deal with it, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Hunger has...
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22 Jan 18
Nearly 1,000 children’s centres across England have not been inspected for more than five years, according to the charity Action for Children.
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22 Jan 18
An independent review of health and social care in Wales has called for the creation of a seamless service organised around users and their families, as close as possible to their homes.
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16 Jan 18
Care Quality Commission chief executive Sir David Behan has announced that he is to step down from the role in the summer after six years at the inspectorate.
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15 Jan 18
The NHS Confederation has commissioned the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Health Foundation to provide objective evidence of what will be needed to finance health and care for the next 15 years.
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12 Jan 18
A child was referred to local authority children's services every 49 seconds last year, the Local Government Association has said, with referrals totalling 646,120.
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11 Jan 18
Jonathan Werran of Localis surveys this week’s reshuffle to discern what can be read into the future direction of local government finance, housing, devolution and social care.
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10 Jan 18
Local authorities must have robust financial plans to withstand the myriad of challenges in the forseeable future, says Rob Whiteman.
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9 Jan 18
Campaigners have called on Jeremy Hunt to address an estimated social care funding gap of £2.5bn with the forthcoming social care green paper.
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2 Jan 18
The New Year once again brought honours for a range of public sector leaders and professionals, including the finance directors of the NHS and the Department for Education.
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20 Dec 17
The government has been “unacceptably complacent” in its response to a growing homelessness crisis in England, according to the Public Accounts Committee.
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14 Dec 17
The resignation of Lord Bob Kerslake should serve as a warning to government that more resources need to be pumped into the NHS, says CIPFA's Paul Carey-Kent.
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13 Dec 17
Just 5% of people are financially prepared for possible care costs in later life, a Demos report has revealed today.
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13 Dec 17
With creative thinking, the cap could be used to not only split the care cost bill, but reduce it – so why drop it? Asks Demos’ Simone Vibert.
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8 Dec 17
Plans to cap social care costs at £72,500 from 2020 have been scrapped, the care minister confirmed yesterday.
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7 Dec 17
NHS trusts are more prepared than ever for the coming winter but the service is close to full stretch and will be “sorely tested”, the sector has warned.
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30 Nov 17
Demographic changes and public expectations of state support will put more of a strain on the public sector than leaving the EU, say experts. Vivienne Russell reports.
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27 Nov 17
English upper-tier councils have eaten into their reserves due to social care pressures, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility.
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24 Nov 17
CIPFA has called for urgent action on children’s social care as a survey out today revealed the duty has become the chief concern of upper tier council finance heads.
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24 Nov 17
The silence on social care in the Budget was worrying, says Rob Whiteman, but there were some winners in the chancellor's announcement on Wednesday.
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23 Nov 17
Pressing public services issues were conspicuous by their absence from the Budget speech yesterday, says the Institute for Government's Emily Andrews.
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23 Nov 17
Bodies representing public sector workers have criticised the lack of action on the pay cap in the Budget yesterday.
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20 Nov 17
The UK’s rising social care costs could be met by raising national insurance contributions by 1%, which would yield £5bn a year, research has suggested.
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17 Nov 17
The government’s long-anticipated green paper on social care will be published in summer 2018.
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10 Nov 17
For every £1 of council tax, almost 60p could be spent on social care by 2020, taking away from “vital day-to-day services”, the Local Government Association has warned ahead of the...