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Apr 26, 2022
Care Aware Benefit Rate Card
Care Aware produces a handy A6 benefit rate card which contains all of the essential rates and allowances relating to care funding. To...
Apr 13, 2022
Help for Carers in Wales
About 57,000 unpaid carers in Wales will be entitled to a payment of £500 in recognition of their role during the pandemic. The Welsh...
Apr 12, 2022
Care Cap Reinstated
The Government has reinstated a change to the cap on care costs that will reduce its benefit to less wealthy people. The House of Commons...
Apr 11, 2022
Funeral Plans Under Threat
Funeral Plan provider, Safe Hands has withdrawn its application for authorisation and has now fallen into administration, leaving as many...
Apr 6, 2022
The Cost of Home Care From April 2022
The Homecare Association announced its new calculation for the Minimum Price for Homecare of £23.20 per hour, effective from April 2022,...
Apr 5, 2022
ASK OUR ADVISERS - Attendance Allowance
My dad is finding it harder and harder to manage but he is so stubborn, he refuses any help we offer. He does occasionally get a taxi...
Apr 4, 2022
Financial Eligibility Gets Tighter
If the social care means test threshold had kept pace with inflation it would be £29,031 today – that’s £5,781 or 25% higher than it...
Apr 1, 2022
FEEDBACK - You've answered all of my questions and others I didn't even have!
"I really enjoyed talking to you, you're are an absolute star. I have so many conversations with professionals in the last few months...
Mar 30, 2022
Veg Pledge for Cancer Research
A well-planned vegetarian or vegan diet can be very healthy, as diets high in plant foods like fruit, veg, wholegrains and pulses and low...
Mar 29, 2022
NHS Staff Survey
Source: Kings Fund
Mar 28, 2022
Slight increase in numbers receiving public funded long term care
The number of people receiving publicly funded long-term care in 2020/21 increased by 3,000 (0.3 per cent) to 841,000. This overall...
Mar 23, 2022
Kings Fund calls for change to the Health and Care Bill
“The change to the social care cap is regressive and runs counter to the government’s ambition of ‘levelling up’. To ensure those people...
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