Engage: Expo explores a new era of care
This is a sponsored article and is brought to you by the Health and Care Innovation Expo.Since the birth of the NHS in 1948, England’s demographics have changed immeasurably. As
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Angus Council chief warns 800 jobs could be cut in next three years
A council is facing cutting 800 jobs over the next three years as its leader warned it would no longer be able to deliver its current range and volume of
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Placement of Christian girl with Muslim foster parents ‘not random exercise’
The mayor of Tower Hamlets Council has insisted the authority looked “very carefully at the appropriate matching” following a case where a five-year-old girl from an English-speaking Christian family was
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BASW makes press complaint over ‘false & inflammatory’ reporting on foster case
The British Association of Social Workers (BASW) has issued an official complaint with the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) over what it calls ‘inaccurate, biased and inflammatory articles’ about a
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Severely disabled man ‘fears losing carers’ after appeal defeat on council cuts
A severely disabled man fears losing long-term carers after the Court of Appeal upheld cuts to his care funding, say his lawyers. Luke Davey, 41, had attempted to overturn Oxfordshire
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Severely disabled man loses appeal over council’s 42% reduction in cuts to care funding
A severely disabled man has lost his battle in the Court of Appeal over cuts by a local authority to his care funding. Luke Davey, 41, was seeking to overturn
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Free personal and nursing care policy total cost reaches almost £500m in Scotland
The cost of free personal and nursing care for elderly Scots reached a record high of almost £500 million in 2015-16, a new report has revealed. Councils spent £371 million
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Social services defend case handling as judge says relative should care for girl
Social services bosses at a London council have defended the way they handled the case of five-year-old girl from an English speaking Christian family who was placed with mixed-race foster
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Council praises judge for publishing details of five-year-old’s foster case
Tower Hamlets Council bosses have welcomed a family court judge’s decision to publish detail of a case involving a five-year-old girl which made headlines after she was placed with foster
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New poll suggests MPs confidence in social care system has ‘virtually evaporated’
Nine in 10 Members of Parliament do not believe the social care system is fit for purpose, a new poll suggests. A survey of 101 English MPs found that only
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