The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGSCO) is urging councils and care providers to ensure consistently high standards of end of life care, warning that failures during a person’s final days can have a lasting impact on bereaved families.
Read more...Local authority leaders have an historic opportunity to rebuild public trust in local services through local government reforms, says the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman.
Read more...Councils across the country recorded an overspend of £715 million on adult social care last year, according to the latest annual survey from the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services…
Read more...A new CAA report proposes pooling the financial risk of an ageing population nationally, rather than leaving it with 153 individual councils.
Read more...Baroness Louise Casey of Blackstock used a major speech to local government leaders to warn that we must resist the temptation to attempt major reform of adult social care…
Read more...The Local Government Association (LGA) has called for councils to remain at the heart of adult social care reform, arguing that lasting change should be nationally…
Read more...The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is still not keeping pace with the task of assessing the quality of community social care services in England…
Read more...The County Council’s Network (CNN) has published its new business plan and vision for the organisation, outlining its support to member councils and reinforcing its…
Read more...Following government approval, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published details of its updated approach to assessing how local authorities in England meet their duties…
Read more...An increase in adult social care spending on provider fees and people receiving support has come at the cost of weakening financial health of English…
Read more...A major new local authority public health improvement and support offer is to be led by the Local Government Association (LGA) over the next three…
Read more...A new report released by carehome.co.uk, Caring Britain: How the care home landscape is changing, reveals how the UK’s care home market is evolving amid…
Read more...Social care, along with schools should be at the front of the queue for any additional funding flowing to Wales following the UK Government’s Spring…
Read more...The Local Government Association (LGA) is urging the Chancellor to use the Spring Statement to further stabilise council finances, warning that growing cost and demand…
Read more...The government has outlined how it intends to manage councils’ accumulated special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) deficits and has announced it will pay 90%…
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