Social Care

The NHS backlog caused by the pandemic will take even longer to clear if immediate national funding to tackle pressures facing social care now is not announced in today’s Spending

North Yorkshire County Council has been criticised by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman after a family’s care bill leapt from hundreds to thousands

57% of care sector professionals attending a recent employment law webinar have experienced significant disruptions in their organisation as a result of staff missing the…

Care England, has made its views known about making vaccination a condition of deployment in the health and wider social care sector highlighting its concerns

The QCS Pool Activity Level instrument (PAL), created by Jackie Pool and with the continued support of QCS, the leading provider of content, guidance for the social care sector

The British Medical Association (BMA) has responded to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee and Health and Social Care

Amid consistent media reports that a rise in Council Tax is the Chancellor’s chosen mechanism for increasing funding for social care, Age UK warns that this approach

Leaders of care associations in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland met in London earlier this month, for the first time since the start of the pandemic

DAMNING new figures on social care staffing highlight once again how close to the edge the sector is and the need for urgent government action, providers have said.

The latest report from Skills for Care reveals the significant impact the pandemic has had on both the short and long-term challenges faced by the workforce.

THE Government continues to ignore a crisis in social care that left the care of our oldest and most vulnerable exposed to the Covid-19 pandemic, providers said today.

Housing must better meet the diverse needs of older people living with dementia, as well as those from LGBT+ and BAME backgrounds – social care and housing sector experts heard