Social Care

Practical guidance launched today aims to help people choose the right social care support. The resource, Top ten tips when choosing a support provider, is…

Chris Ham, Chief Executive of The King’s Fund, said: ‘We agree with the NAO that place based planning and health and social care integration are…

Councils are doing all they can to protect adult social care but reductions in funding and the cost of the National Living Wage, while welcome,…

Middlesex University and the University of Bedfordshire are to work together on a €2.5m international three-year research project to help develop the world’s first robots…

‘Emergency’ government funding of £1bn should be provided to councils in their 2017/18 budgets to help stabilise social care and prevent an imminent crisis in…

Concerns are being raised by leading council figures in England about a lack of confidence in the Government’s plans for health and social care. Meanwhile…

Leaders of England’s county authorities have today warned that there is a ‘fundamental mismatch’ between funding and demand for social care, with counties now at…

Chris Ham, Chief Executive of The King’s Fund, said: ‘Securing sustainable funding for social care is a challenge that successive governments have failed to meet….

Councils are being given the power to raise tax for social care by six per cent over the next two years, as part of £900m…

Social care precept increases won’t benefit the areas which need it most. Potential funding increases are ‘no-where near adequate’ to sustain adult social care. New…

Pressure is mounting as the government faces calls to provide additional money for social care which Chancellor Philip Hammond failed to address in his Autumn…