NCF Calls For More Support For Social Care
The National Care Forum is calling for more support for social care providers during the coronavirus outbreak, highlighting the sector’s crucial role in ensuring people’s…
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Social Care
SOUP Event Serves Up Success For People In The Community
A social care provider has raised £400 for a local charity after a successful third SOUP Event in Wokingham. The £200 which was raised during…
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New Guidance For Adult Social Care To Better Protect The Most Vulnerable Against COVID-19
Advice sets out who should visit those in care and what to do if a positive case is identified or if someone displays symptoms NHS…
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Poll Reveals Public “Unconvinced” Over Social Care Promises
Voters are unconvinced the government will fulfil its promise to produce and implement a social care policy. A survey of over 45s by financial services…
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Care Sector Reacts to Rishi Sunak’s First Budget
There was sector-wide disappointment in the first Budget from Chancellor Rishi Sunak as the promised solution for the social care crisis failed to materialise. Commenting…
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LGA Responds To Social Care Funding Gap Inquiry Launched By Mps
“Our own analysis published ahead of this week’s Budget shows that adult social care services face a funding gap of almost £4 billion by 2025,…
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VODG Calls For National Conversation About Reform Of Social Care
A national conversation about creating a social care future between people who use services, professionals and policy makers is needed, says a report by Voluntary…
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Adult Social Care Cross-Party Talks Begin
Members of Parliament and Peers have been urged to come forward to help secure a cross-party consensus on adult social care in a letter from…
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Business As Usual For Social Care Services
Providers working with local agencies Care providers are working with other agencies to ensure it is business as usual in the care of older and…
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Incredible 80-Year-Old Resident Returns to the Alps to Ski Despite Dementia and Impaired Mobility
Jean Bayley, an 80-year-old resident at local care home Sunrise of Westbourne, was able to go skiing with her family for a second year running,…
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Local Services Face Almost £6.5 Billion Funding Gap by 2025
Local services in England face an overall funding gap of almost £6.5 billion by 2025, new analysis by the Local Government Association ahead of the…
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More Focus On Human Rights Needed By Healthcare Services When Using The Mental Health Act
CQC’s Monitoring the Mental Health Act in 2018/19 report, published today, finds there has been an improvement in the number of people being given information about…
Read more...Fears For Social Care After Immigration Decision
Social care would be dealt a devastating blow if plans to end freedom of movement following Brexit go ahead, campaigners warned today. Responding to the…
Read more...Keeping Up With The Living Wage
Care England, the largest representative body for independent providers of adult social care, has expressed concern about the cost of implementing the National Living Wage…
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New Minister of State for Care
Helen Whately MP has been appointed as the new Minister of State for Care after the Cabinet reshuffle. Helen was previously Parliamentary Under Secretary of…
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