Healthcare bosses have apologised for failings after a review found a vulnerable adult with cancer died “with no dignity”, in pain and soiled with faeces in a home said to
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It is a “tragedy” that calls for emergency funding to stabilise the social care sector over the winter seem to have “fallen on deaf ears”, a boss in the industry
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Council leaders in Scotland are seeking “urgent” talks with Home Secretary Priti Patel on what they can do to help accommodate asylum seekers. Kelly Parry, community wellbeing spokeswoman for the
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The Home Office is to write to councils urging them to take migrant children who have arrived in the UK without any parents or guardians. A voluntary scheme is now
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Boris Johnson narrowly succeeded in getting the Commons to back a change to social care reforms despite a sizeable Tory rebellion over concerns it will hit poorer pensioners. Senior Conservative
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Two girls who went missing from their home in London while at the centre of family court proceedings could be with their mother in France or Madagascar, social services bosses
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Boris Johnson insisted his plans for reform of social care funding are “incredibly generous” as he sought to head off a looming backbench revolt. Some Conservative MPs warned they will
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The number of children in care in England could reach almost 100,000 by 2025, the County Councils Network has warned. The County Councils Network (CCN) has warned that unless there
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Boris Johnson faces a backbench revolt over his social care plans as a minister insisted the reforms would mean “fewer people” would have to sell their homes to meet the
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Poorer recipients of care, including those in the North of England and in areas with lower house prices, will be hit hardest by proposed changes to the social care cap,
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