Social Care

The Social Care Sector has long called for senior care workers among other key roles to be added to the Shortage Occupation List. Aston Brooke Solicitors

The Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee has launched a new inquiry to investigate how covid-19 has impacted the adult social care

Care England haswritten to the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to express immense frustration with the publication of the staff movement guidance.

Social care leaders from Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) , Care England, and National Care Forum (NCF) are calling on the government

The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman is reminding councils that people can spend their money as they wish, within reason

Nine out of ten MPs say that local government does not have enough resource to meet the growing need for social care services and three in five believe

Care England has written to the Chancellor urging him to make good on the Government’s commitment to adult social care in his Budget this week.

The Health and Social Care spokesperson for the Welsh Liberal Democrats and Senedd Candidate for SE Wales has asked for guarantees that funds received

New Age UK research, carried out in late January and early February 2021[i] shows that older people’s need for social care has been intensified by their experience of the pandemic

A poll by social care lawyers Royds Withy King reports that almost three-quarters (73%) of social care providers would like to make a COVID vaccination

Care England has written the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, encouraging him to put in place a system of occupancy strategy in the care home

The government has published its white paper outlining proposed reform of the NHS and social care.

Care providers have welcomed proposals to reform the way the NHS is run but urged the Government to press on with vital reform of social care at the same time.