The cost of social care for people with dementia will almost triple over the next twenty years as the result of a sharp increase in the number of people suffering from an acute form of the condition.
Protecting social care spending has forced English councils to cut other services by 40% in the last 10 years, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Council tax revenue will lag far behind the cost of providing key services, such as adult social care, even if the tax increased by 4% a year until 2024-25, according to the Institute for Fiscal...
Failure to accelerate reform within the Welsh primary care sector could jeopardise the sustainability of essential services, according to The Wales Audit Office.
Ten per cent of services for those with learning disabilities and autism were rated as inadequate up to September this year compared to just 1% in 2018, according to the Care Quality Commission.
Labour’s policy for providing free personal care for over 65s does not appear to protect against longer-term “catastrophic costs”, an assistant director of the Health Foundation told an audience at...
Although education had some certainty for the next three years, other public services did not and some areas are still likely to feel the pinch of austerity over the next year, says CIPFA’s Don...
The prime minister’s £3.5m package for councils, expected to be announced in this week’s Spending Round, would be a “very welcome contribution” if it is not money that has already been announced.
If the chancellor does not continue to pay temporary grants for social care next financial year councils in England will be forced to decommission services, an umbrella group has warned.
Funding shortages and increased demand pressure meant that local authorities had to spend £770m more than planned on children’s services in 2018-19, according to the Local Government Association.
