Public services face years more of austerity unless the chancellor hands out billions of extra pounds at the Spending Review, an economic think-tank has warned.
The NHS Long Term Plan is welcome but without firm plans for social care funding many of its ambitions are unrealistic and unclear, says CIPFA’s Eleanor Roy.
This year was another missed opportunity for the government to fix the adult social care system - it can not duck this important issue in 2019, the president of the Association of Directors of Adult...
A £30,000 salary threshold for skilled workers coming to the UK after Brexit could have “severe implications” for health and social care, an umbrella-group has warned.
Frontline services in Northamptonshire will be largely protected in next year’s budget, the troubled county council claimed – although council tax will rise.
Police are picking up the pieces of a “broken” mental health system as well as increasingly being the first public service on the scene when people need help, inspectors warned.
Although the Scottish Government has taken a ‘step in the right direction’, panellists at CIPFA’s Public Finance Debate warned the NHS in Scotland is unsustainable. Kerry Lorimer reports.
Independent care providers have adopted a set of ethical standards, based on the Nolan principles, to help improve collaborative working with the public sector and gain its confidence.