A scheme to relieve pressure on local councils caring for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children is set to be rolled out. Under new legislation the National Transfer Scheme (NTS), which allows hard-pressed
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A £72,000 cap on social care costs due to come into effect in four years will be scrapped, a health minister has said, as she confirmed plans for a new
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A Tory former children’s minister has demanded assurances from the Government that children’s social care is being treated with the same level of importance as the care of adults. Tim
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The amount of money people in Wales can keep when in residential care will increase from £30,000 to £40,000 from April next year, it has been announced. The move is
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A couple have lost a family court fight over the care of a disabled grandchild they had looked after since she was a baby after a dispute with social workers.
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David Cameron has expressed regret he was unable to do more to deal with the “huge” challenge funding social care for Britain’s ageing population. The former prime minister – who
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The UK care home market is grappling with an unsustainable £1 billion a year funding gap that could spark a string of closures across the nation, the competition watchdog has
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Britain is in a “spiral of division”, with London providing greater opportunities for the disadvantaged than coastal, rural and former industrial areas which are “left behind economically and hollowed out
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Unions have attacked the Chancellor for “letting down” millions of public sector workers over the controversial cap on their pay. Philip Hammond raised the prospect of increases for NHS staff,
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The family court judge who ruled that Elsie Scully-Hicks could be adopted by a fitness instructor who murdered her should publish the reasoning behind the decision, a campaigner says. Former
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