Children are being pushed towards violent street gangs by a social care system that focuses money on a small number of the most serious cases, the Children’s Commissioner for England
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Adult social care is increasingly fragile and requires more short-term Government funding to tide it over until reform measures are introduced, a report warns. Despite a £2.3 billion boost this
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A hospice boss whose arrest cost the charity £100,000 in lost donations will be jailed when he is sentenced for a long-running fraud. Graham Leggatt-Chidgey, 62, pleaded guilty to abusing
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Failures across health and social care led to around 1.5 million emergency admissions to hospital that could have been avoided, MPs have said. Nearly a quarter of the urgent admissions
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The Review of Adult Social Care Relative Needs Formulae proposes a new formula to be used with the Local Government Finance Settlement. The Review of Adult Social Care Relative Needs
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A decision to pull the plug on NHS funding for homeopathy has been upheld by a High Court judge. The British Homeopathic Association (BHA) brought a legal challenge against NHS
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A war of words has broken out between a local authority and the Scottish Government over a ‘missing’ £1 million intended for social care. Angus Council, who have denied any
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Too many older people are living in misery as they are left waiting for months to receive care in their own home, a charity has warned. Older people and their
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Hundreds of millions of pounds in funding has been announced to help improve provision for children with special educational needs and disabilities. The Government has provided £680 million to create
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Tax may need to rise to historically high levels in order to give the NHS the money it needs to cope with an ageing population, a new report suggests. A
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