The outlook for adult social care is still potentially bleak, predicts the IFS’s Polly Simpson, with the sector’s sustainability linked to elements outside government control - the performance of the...
The extra £20bn a year for the NHS is like “pouring water down a sink with no plug in” unless social care also receives a funding boost, council leaders and health groups have...
English councils are allocating larger proportions of their budget to adult social care while spending less on the area in real terms, according to two reports.
The British public have shown “overwhelming” support to increase annual spending on health and social care over the next 15 years, according to a poll released today.
A leading committee of MPs has pointed to a staggering 1.5 million avoidable A&E admissions as evidence of the government’s underfunding of preventative health care.
Budget holders may be unable or even unwilling to accept they have financial reponsibilities. There are several ways to address this, says CIPFA’s Lisa Forster.
NHS trusts in England ended the last financial year with a deficit of £960m - £464m above the projected deficit of £496m, a regulator’s report out today has shown.
Households in the UK would have to pay up to £2,000 a year extra to keep the NHS afloat as it copes with increased demand, a major report out today has warned.
Scottish councils have been warned to think carefully before opting to deliver services through arm’s-length bodies, in a report from a public spending watchdog.
Now the dust has settled - two weeks after the local elections - the Institute for Government’s Graham Atkins gives some advice for newly-elected councillors on five challenges they need to address....
The NHS and adult social care sector should work more closely together – and the latter should be funded in a similar way to the health service, local government figures have heard.
Early years providers in England are struggling to provide the promised 30 hours of free child care because of “insufficient” funding, a survey has found.
