More than £2bn of funding for vital social care services is at risk next year, with council leaders today urging government to confirm that resource will continue otherwise services will
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Boris Johnson has suggested a cross-party approach may be needed to deal with the “huge issue” of social care. The Prime Minister – who used his first speech in office
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said hospices will receive a £25 million funding boost to help alleviate frontline pressures. The announcement follows a reception hosted by the Prime Minister in
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A “long-overdue” review of council tax bands is needed to help plug the £5 billion funding gap local authorities are facing, a committee of MPs has said. In its report
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Rhod Gilbert has accused the Government of “a deliberate hacking away at almost all public and social services until there is nothing left” as he called for improved funding for
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More than £28 million in student loan over-payments is sitting in government coffers unclaimed by graduates. In a nine-year period, more than half a million former students in England overpaid
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Most people support a tax increase to tackle the UK’s adult social care “crisis”, new research suggests. Three out of four of 1,000 members of the public surveyed for the
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Labour has accused Boris Johnson of misleading voters over a promised £1.8 billion cash injection for the National Health Service. The Prime Minister said his latest high-profile announcement from the
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Boris Johnson’s £1.8 billion cash injection for the NHS has been widely criticised as “a drop in the ocean”, as experts called for more funding to be committed across the
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NHS bodies have presented the new Prime Minister with a “to-do” list, asking him to address major areas of “unfinished business” that are damaging patient care. Boris Johnson must prioritise
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