Social Care

A new report calls for a new framework and funding to make assistive technology ‘mainstream’ in adult social care services, including providing the infrastructure to roll this out effectively in rural areas

11,171 certificates of sponsorship were used for health and social care workers in the UK during the first quarter of this year. Each certificate equates to a migrant worker. At the start of 2018, there were 3,370.

State-of-the-art care village operator Belong has been granted planning permission for the North West’s first nursery within a care setting, at its most recent development,

Everyone across England is being urged to continue letting fresh air into enclose spaces, take up the offer of twice-weekly free testing, wash their hands and book both doses of their vaccine

The government’s mandatory Covid vaccination policy in adult social care could lead to the loss of an estimated 40,000 staff with a replacement costs of £2,500 each to care homes in England

Care England, the largest representative body for independent providers of adult social care, expresses its deepest sympathies to the relatives of all those care home residents and staff who have died of COVID-19.

A Lincolnshire family has been forced to complain to the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman for the second time about the way a relative’s care home fees were charged because

The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) has today published its Spring Survey 2021(formerly the Budget Survey), which describes the financial and operating state of adult social care services in England.

Almost 75,000 disabled and older people and carers are waiting for help with their care and support as social services struggle to cope with an avalanche of needs arising from the Covid pandemic.