Scotland’s Displaced Care Worker Scheme Reopens
A displaced worker scheme has reopened to new applications in Scotland to help grow the number of care employees and will be boosted to deliver up to 45,000 extra hours of care…
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Care Sector’s Got Talent Builds Momentum As Record Entries Pour In
Momentum is building behind Care Sector’s Got Talent 2026, with organisers announcing that entries have already surpassed the total number received for last year’s competition…
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Colleagues Complete Kiltwalk for Charity
Colleagues from Care UK’s Tor-Na-Dee in Aberdeen have raised over £2,000 for Alzheimer’s Scotland after completing an 18-mile walk, and all whilst dressed in kilts!
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New Report Reveals Growing Pressure On Social Care Workforce
More than half of care workers have considered leaving the sector in the last year, according to a new report highlighting the growing pressures facing the social care workforce.
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Sector Gives Cautious Welcome to Prime Ministers Speech on Social Care
The care sector has today given a cautious welcome to Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s landmark speech on adult social care, in which he vowed to fix England’s “broken” system and pledged that his government would succeed where “successive administrations have ducked the issue for too long.”
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Care Workers’ Charity Helps CQC Launch New Guide
The Care Workers’ Charity (CWC) has welcomed the publication of the Care Workers’ guide to CQC, a new resource on the Care Quality Commission’s website co-produced with care workers from CWC’s Care Worker Advisory Board and Champions Project.
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Social Care- Time for Problem-Solving, Not Point-Scoring says Burnham
Visiting a care home today [Wednesday 29th July], the Prime Minister will say he is making the choice to fix the broken social care system by finding common ground across party lines to tackle the big issues.
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Care England Rates the Last government “Requires Improvement” on Social Care
Care England has today published Two Years of Promises, a scorecard grading the government’s delivery against every commitment in Labour’s 2024 manifesto that bears on…
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New Union Access Rules Could Add Hundreds of Millions of Pounds A Year to the Cost of Homecare, Providers Warn
The Homecare Association has written to the Minister for Employment Rights warning that a late change to the Government’s new Code of Practice on trade union access to workplaces could add hundreds of millions of pounds a year to the cost of delivering homecare in England – with no funding to pay for it.
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Caring for Family Pushes More Women Out of Work in London Than Anywhere Else in Britain
As Baroness Casey prepares to publish the first report of her Independent Commission on Adult Social Care, new analysis from the International Longevity Centre UK (ILC) shows…
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Care About Care Launches New Campaign Tools to Hold New Prime Minister To Account
The Care About Care campaign, run by the grassroots coalition Providers Unite, has launched two new campaign tools today to help maintain political pressure on new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, to honour his promises to reform social care.
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Millions of Unpaid Carers to Get Recognition and Earlier Support
Millions of unpaid carers in England will be better recognised, referred to support and helped to reach their full potential, under a new cross-government action plan published earlier this month.
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New PM Signals Tax Rises May Be Needed To Fund National Care Service
Andy Burnham has used his first days in Downing Street to reopen the debate over how a national care service for England should be funded, suggesting that tax increases may be unavoidable if the government is to deliver a system that matches the ambitions long championed by care sector campaigners.
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Variation in Social Care Cannot Be Fixed Without Investing in the Workforce
The Care Workers’ Charity (CWC) has responded to the Care Quality Commission’s first national report drawing together assessments of all 153 local authorities in England with adult social care duties.
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£5,000 Prize Up for Grabs as Care Sector’s Got Talent Returns with Biggest-Ever Search for Social Care’s Hidden Stars
Care Sector’s Got Talent is back for 2026 with its biggest-ever prize fund, a brand-new stage at the Care Show and a call for everyone working across social care to step into the spotlight.
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