A £14m package of support will be made available to help local government implement major reforms to Wales’ social care system, Health and Social Services Minister Mark Drakeford has announced.
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Funding for free nursery places delivering early learning and childcare will double over the term of the next Scottish Parliament, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has pledged. In a wide-ranging education
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Plans to devolve £6 billion a year of health spending to Greater Manchester will lead to closer integration between the NHS and social care and improve results for patients, George
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MPs have warned of a potential “significant increase” in pressure on adult social care as a result of switching the focus of a key Government scheme to slashing NHS costs.
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Social care funding must be protected in the same way that it is for the NHS in the next Budget or another crisis such as the one seen this winter
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Ministers are asking Chancellor George Osborne for extra money for public prosecutors so they can deal with a spike in historic sex abuse cases. Attorney General Jeremy Wright confirmed that
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Skills for Health has announced that national funding for their e-learning provision will cease on the 31st March 2015 and they are now required to charge users directly for this
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The Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister (OFMDFM) in Northern Ireland have announced plans to implement a crisis fund for destitute asylum seekers and migrants. The Fund
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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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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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