Almost three million people spend more than £1,200 of their own money every year caring for an elderly loved-one, a study suggests.

Families are facing huge pressures and business productivity is suffering due to shrinking local authority social care services, a carers’ charity has reported.

July 16th is the date set for the launch of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Local Government’s report on the future of social care, chaired by Conservative MP for South Derbyshire Heather Wheeler, which will contribute to the subsequent Government White Paper that care sector experts are hoping will result in long-awaited reforms to help the UK cope with the challenges of an ageing population.

The Department of Health (DH) has called on providers, including private firms, to participate in pilots for its new ‘Year of Care’ funding model for long-term conditions (LTC).

National social care charity, Community Integrated Care, has announced the launch of ‘EachStep’ – a pioneering model for dementia care which will open with the launch of EachStep: Blackley, on June 28th.

The long-awaited reform of social care funding in England has been delayed – and is now unlikely to materialise until late next year, it has been reported.

The chief of children’s services has apologised “unreservedly” for failures exposed in a child protection review.

Research from the General Social Care Council investigates the provision of practice placements for social work students

A care home for young disabled people failed to meet essential standards of care according to a health and social care watchdog.

A SOCIAL worker told a mother he would write a good report on her if she served him tea and beer naked, a tribunal heard yesterday.