Adult social care services will receive £341m to continue to keep vulnerable people safe from Covid-19 even as restrictions begin to ease and the vaccine rollout continues.
A report showing healthy profits for independent providers of children’s residential care while councils struggle underlines the need for reform, says Judith Blake chair of the Local Government...
The UK’s death toll from Covid-19 this week reached 100,000. The grim milestone is a legacy of underfunding for health and care services, says Anita Charlesworth, director of research and REAL Centre...
The government is set to provide an update on progress towards reforming the social care system “following the forthcoming Spending Review”, it has said.
Social care provision should remain outsourced despite the problems in the sector, King’s Fund director of policy Sally Warren told a Public Finance Live conference session on care reform after Covid...
Covid-19 exacerbated the already stark problems faced by the social care sector, but offers an opportunity to change course in some areas, a Public Finance Live session has been told.
Covid-19 has made the interdependence between social care and the NHS clear, and we need to move forward with that interdependence in mind, argues CIPFA's Dr Eleanor Roy.
With the social care crisis having been exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, CIPFA's health and social care policy manager Dr Eleanor Roy outlines some essential requirements to help the...
Covid-19 has exposed problems in health and care systems, and we need to re-think how we view efficiency in the NHS, argues the Health Foundation’s Anita Charlesworth.
The government’s rollout of the Infection Control Fund for care homes has been branded “confusing” and “unnecessarily bureaucratic” by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Care Services.
Councils are set to receive £1.6bn of funding to help fight the coronavirus pandemic, as part of the government’s £5bn coronavirus fund announced during the Budget.
Almost half of councils overspent on their adult social care budget in 2018/19, while 82% of councils overspent exceeding their financial plans for children’s social care, according to research from...
The Local Government Association (LGA) has warned growing debt in private care providers is putting children at risk, after finding that six out of 10 of the largest providers had more debts and...
Local authorities in England face a £19bn deficit over the next five years despite the vast majority hiking council tax rates in this year, analysis has found.