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Feb 16, 2023
House of Lords Reports
A House of Lords adult social care committee has urged the government to make adult social care a “national imperative”, through an...
Feb 15, 2023
Social Care Complaints Upheld
Over the past year, the Ombudsman has upheld 70 per cent of the cases it has investigated about adult social care – a figure higher than...
Feb 9, 2023
A Gridlocked System
Older people are stuck in hospital because there isn’t the social care support in place for them to leave, they are stuck in emergency...
Feb 8, 2023
Minimum price of home care to rise by 12% next year, says provider body
The Homecare Association says councils and NHS commissioners would have to pay providers at least £25.95 an hour in 2023-24 to cover...
Feb 7, 2023
Invisible Care
The work of unpaid carers is largely invisible, unrecognised and unsupported. Estimates show that there are between 4.2 million and 6.5...
Feb 6, 2023
More Dissatisfaction
Results from the latest British Social Attitudes Survey, showed the proportion of people satisfied with the NHS overall dropping from 53%...
Feb 2, 2023
Look at Insurance
Tory governments have failed to cut the "catastrophic costs" of social care and should now look at an "insurance intervention", David...
Feb 1, 2023
More Social Workers Lost
Just over 1,000 social workers have been removed from the register despite paying the £90 fee and meeting continuing professional...
Jan 31, 2023
Lessons Must Not Be Lost
The Department of Health and Social Care is in talks with the local authorities who were piloting the now delayed social care reform as...
Jan 30, 2023
Complaints About Social Care Increase
The cost of providing care has become an increasingly common theme in the complaints made to the Local Government and Social Care...
Jan 27, 2023
Sickened by Delays
A woman has said she is "sickened" by the delay on the cap on care costs. Paula Conner, 75, told the BBC she pays £1,200 a week for a...
Jan 26, 2023
Reforms are about more than not having to sell your home...
Reform to our care system is about more than not having to sell your home to pay for care, it is about providing more care at home,...
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