Widespread dismay has greeted the omission of any reference in the 2016 Autumn Statement to the parlous state of social care funding. While few expected any fresh announcements about more
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Hiking up council tax bills to cover the social care funding black hole will increase the postcode lottery in provision, Theresa May was warned amid speculation she will back steep
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Council budgets could be cut by £700 million by the end of the current Parliament, according to a new report. The study, commissioned by the Scottish Local Government Partnership (SLGP),
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The Home Office has extended its contract with G4S and Serco to provide asylum seekers with accommodation – despite controversy that some people were marked out by having their doors
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Companies that provide care to the elderly and disabled are increasingly handing back contracts to local authorities because they are not being paid enough, the leader of the health regulator
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Before the recent Autumn Statement, there was plenty of chatter about the government – at long last – putting more money into social care. The system has been starved of
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Health Minister Michelle O’Neill has appointed two leading experts in social care to help reform Adult Care and Support. Des Kelly and John Kennedy will form an Expert Advisory Panel
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Senior judges have raised concerns about a case in which a 71-year-old grandmother was given a six-month jail term after social services bosses complained she had breached orders made in
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This December 7th we will see a national day of celebration for Hospital social work, the practice and the social workers that make it happen. As we again enter into
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Lawyers have returned to a specialist court for the latest round of a long-running case which a judge said had cost taxpayers an “astonishing” amount of money and generated an
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