Too many children have been “failed” through a lack of progress on improving social services in the last decade, a Conservative former children’s minister has told the Commons. Tim Loughton
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Funding social care through increased council tax is “highly regressive and inequitable”, a Tory former Cabinet minister has warned. Lord Forsyth of Drumlean (pictured) levelled his criticism with the lion’s
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Reports that a Tory peer may have benefited from Covid PPE contracts raise “far wider” questions about how the Government awarded such agreements, Labour has said. Labour deputy leader Angela
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Suella Braverman has been accused of being “out of her depth” after conceding many asylum seekers would need to come to the UK in order to submit a claim. MPs
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A Conservative MP has suggested Home Office minister Robert Jenrick should resign, accusing him of not having “the first clue” of what he is doing in relation to the relocation
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The Department for Education (DfE) has “further to go to embed a culture of evaluation in social care”, according to a report by MPs. The DfE’s 14-year, £333 million Children’s
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Some 741 deaths of homeless people were registered in 2021 in England and Wales, up 8% on the previous year, estimates show. The increase means the number of deaths has
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A coroner has written to the Health Secretary with his concerns about the crisis in the social care sector leading to hospital bed-blocking and delays in ambulances reaching patients. Andrew
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Many people on low incomes will have breathed a sigh of relief when the UK Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt announced, in his autumn statement on November 17 2022, that he would
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The Chancellor said he believes delayed social care reforms will be brought in if the Conservatives win the next general election, after doubt was cast over their fate. Jeremy Hunt
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