Erosion of ‘lighter touch’ preventative services for children happening despite government’s commitment to early intervention

If funding for social care is cut back, people may have no option but to use hospital care, a study by the Nuffield Trust has warned.

A DAMNING report has blamed poor leadership and weak management for the “dreadful” abuse of vulnerable adults at a council-run care home.

More than 200 home care providers in England have been using staff who have not been properly vetted, the BBC’s Inside Out programme has found.

The Care Quality Commission wants to recruit up to 200 health and social care professionals in order to achieve the required number of inspections by the end of the financial year

The Department of Health has written to the Directors of Adult Social Services in the Social Work Practice (SWP) pilot sites to signal the intention, subject to Parliamentary approval, to extend the period for which the SWPs may run.

People will need to take greater responsibility for the care of elderly relatives in the future, health minister Norman Lamb said.

As our society becomes increasingly digitalised, figures reveal a large proportion of those not online have a disability or are elderly

Dying people could end up in hospital sooner – and so cost taxpayers more – if cuts to social care services continue, a report warns today.

Funding for social work is worse today than it has been at any time in the last three decades. That’s the view of Nick Lovell, a BASW Council member and a social worker with 27 years experience in the field, who says that amidst the pressure of working in the face of such deep cuts social workers need to remind themselves of why they do their job and the difference they make to people’s lives.