Downing Street may have blocked a new funding package for social care services ahead of the Autumn Statement, Andy Burnham has claimed. Labour’s former health secretary said councils had been
Read More
One of the key points made in the recently published ADCS report, Pillars & Foundations: Next practice in children’s services, was a call for the sector to become much more
Read More
Research in Practice and their partners are interested to understand how councils are trying to enable closer and more fluid working between adult safeguarding and children’s safeguarding. Colleagues are in
Read More
Britain’s biggest care homes group Four Seasons has reported another set of improving results as the company’s private equity owner continues crunch talks with lenders aimed at securing its future.
Read More
Scotland’s councils could be facing a shortfall of more than £550 million in just two years’ time, public spending watchdogs have predicted. The Accounts Commission has forecast the gap between
Read More
The country faces a “social care crisis” unless funding is increased, with knock-on effects likely to add to pressures on hospital A&E departments over the winter, ministers have been warned.
Read More
New guidance published by Minister for Social Services and Public Health Rebecca Evans will help to evaluate ‘how the Social Services and Well-being Act is having a real, positive, impact
Read More
One of the country’s biggest councils is still failing to do enough to protect vulnerable children but there are signs of improvement, a report has said. A newly-published Ofsted inspection
Read More
The lack of extra resources for social care in the Autumn Statement has sparked alarm among leading Tories. Warwickshire County Council leader Izzi Seccombe, who is the most senior Tory
Read More
Charities and health experts have reacted with dismay to the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement, which failed to pledge extra cash for the NHS or social care. Philip Hammond repeated the Government’s
Read More