Councils to get further £12M to ease bed-blocking
Town halls are to get a cash injection to help ease pressure on the NHS by reducing delays in people leaving hospital and receiving social care. The Government says a
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Social care ‘in crisis’ as LGA warn over £1.1billion funding shortfall
The escalating cost of caring for the elderly means councils will have to divert £1.1 billion from services like fixing potholes and running libraries and museums from April, new analysis
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Hertfordshire council awarded £5M grant for children’s social care
Hertfordshire County Council has announced it has been awarded a grant of £4.86m to improve children’s social care in the county. It is the highest of any grant awarded to
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Government to cease funding for 25 cancer treatments
The Government is to stop funding 25 cancer treatments as part of efforts to cut costs by £80 million. NHS England has announced that the budget for the Cancer Drugs
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Underfunding of social care will continue to impact on NHS
The Local Government Association (LGA) has warned that continued underfunding of social care is likely to have ongoing consequences for the NHS. Cllr Izzi Seccombe, Chairman of the LGA’s Community
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Scottish charities to receive £14.7 million funding
Children and families across Scotland are set to benefit from funding awards totalling almost £15 million, announced by Scotland’s Acting Children’s Minister. The funding has been awarded to 132 voluntary
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Families missing out as childcare funding ‘too complex’
Some 335,000 families could miss out on financial help they need to pay for childcare and stay in work because of the complexity of the new childcare support system, according
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Labour pledges £330m cancer funding if it wins election
Labour is promising to establish a £330 million cancer treatments fund to improve access to cutting-edge surgery and radiotherapy as well as the latest drugs if it gains power in
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Think-tank warns £2 billion needed to prevent NHS crisis
The King’s Fund has called for an additional £2 billion in funding for the NHS ahead of next week’s Autumn Statement. In a briefing published before the Chancellor makes his
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ADASS warns ‘time for society to make its choice’ on social care funding
The prospect of further cuts in social care budgets is very likely to erode further our capacity to provide vital care and support to disabled and older people; to ensure
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