A new parliamentary group on social care has been launched at Westminster amid warnings from GMB Union the care sector is ‘in crisis’. The All Party Parliamentary Group on Social
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The Welsh Government will target new mental health investment in initiatives to prevent and reduce suicide rates in Wales, Health Minister Vaughan Gething has announced. Mental health is one of
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Changes to council funding rules in England proposed by the Government will shift money from deprived to rich areas, an economic think tank has warned. Ministers’ plans to base assessments
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Nearly all local authorities in England are planning to raise council tax in the year ahead while vital services remain under pressure, a survey has found. The survey, by the
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Three out of five social care providers have had to close down parts of their work or hand back contracts to local authorities because of financial pressures, according to a
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Ministers have been accused by MPs of being “in denial” over the “perilous” state of local government finances in England. After years of cuts to Whitehall funding, the Commons Public
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Thousands of people have died waiting for care since the Government first said it would publish a green paper on social care, a charity has said. Age UK estimates that
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Ministers risk causing “social vandalism of the worst kind” if maintained nurseries close due to funding uncertainty, MPs have heard. Former shadow education secretary Lucy Powell warned the Government must
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Local authority leaders have warned that money for local services is “running out fast” after the Government confirmed that it would allow council tax rises of up to 3% in
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Cities have been hit twice as hard by austerity than elsewhere in the UK, an urban think tank said. Almost three-quarters (74%) of cuts to local government funding over the
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