Care providers can now download new guidance from the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman to help them provide clearer cost information in their contracts for service users. Based on
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North Yorkshire County Council stopped paying for an elderly woman’s care home after it decided she gave away money to avoid paying the fees, the Local Government and Social Care
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Social Care Wales have published their response to the consultation on Transforming Care in the 21st Century, which ran for 12 weeks between 24 July and 16 October 2017. The report
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The finalists for Skills for Care’s Accolades 2018 competing to win a national award celebrating the 1.45 million people who work in adult social care in England, have been announced.
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Sajid Javid has faced claims of trying to “buy off Conservative shires” with council funding to avoid a Commons rebellion. Shadow local government minister Jim McMahon said the Communities Secretary
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Vulnerable and elderly people who are re-admitted to hospital on a regular basis should receive automatic home checks, the British Red Cross has suggested. It has conducted a report which
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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said care workers are “grossly underpaid” and pledged £8 billion of extra funding for social care if elected. He made the comments during a visit
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The Government is in the dark over how many people have been stopped from working with children or vulnerable adults as a result of disclosures made in background checks, a
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Almost 100 families whose homes were destroyed in the Grenfell Tower fire remain stuck in hotels seven months on from the disaster, new figures show. The Royal Borough of Kensington
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The Scottish Social services Council (SSSC) has published two new workforce data reports; one on children’s services and the other on adults’ services. The data in these reports supplements data already
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