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Government ‘will not hesitate’ to act following review into failings around six-year-old’s murder

By Geraldine Scott and Richard Vernalls, Reporters3rd December 2021News England

The Government will not hesitate to take action off the back of a review into failings around the death of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, Number 10 has said. The six-year-old was murdered

Murdered six-year-old boy ‘failed’ by the authorities tasked with keeping him safe, says grandmother

By Richard Vernalls, Reporter3rd December 2021News England

A six-year-old boy murdered by his stepmother “was failed by the very authorities” tasked with keeping him safe, his grandmother has told a court ahead of the killers’ sentencing. Arthur

Review under way into social workers who found ‘no safeguarding concerns’ before child’s murder

By Richard Vernalls, Reporter3rd December 2021News England

An independent review is under way into the actions of social workers who found “no safeguarding concerns” for a boy who was murdered just two months later by his stepmother.

Care sector welcomes social care ‘vision’ but urgent funding needed to bring sector ‘back from brink’

By Jemma Crew, Martina Bet, Lizzie Arnold, Reporters1st December 2021News England

Care groups and charities have welcomed the Government’s “vision” to improve social care but said more funding is urgently needed to deliver this and pull the sector “back from the

Government announce drive for greater adoption of technology in social care on launch of White Paper

By Jemma Crew, Martina Bet, Lizzie Arnold, Reporters1st December 2021News England

The Government has announced a new repairs service to help older and disabled people live independently for longer in their own homes as part of key social care reforms. It

Judge praises social work team as he extends troubled boy’s stay at £500,000 a year children’s home

By Brian Farmer, Reporter30th November 2021News England

A troubled boy’s placement in a children’s home is costing nearly £500,000 a year, a family court judge has said. The boy had been taken from the care of his

Almost 400,000 on care lists amid ‘rapidly deteriorating’ situation, social services leaders warn

By Jemma Crew, Reporter29th November 2021News England

Almost 400,000 people are on social care ‘waiting lists’, care bosses estimate, as they warn of a “rapidly deteriorating” situation for older and disabled people this winter. An estimated 204,241

‘World-leading’ law which guarantees care for people with Down’s syndrome passed by MP’s

By Richard Wheeler and Martina Bet, Reporters26th November 2021News England

Struggles faced by people with Down’s Syndrome to access the care and services they need must end, the Government has said, as MPs backed a “world-leading” proposed law. The Down

Engage: Social care cap – How the new system will work and why it’s unfair, an expert explains

By Janette Rutterford, The Open University26th November 2021Engage

Boris Johnson’s proposed new cap on social care has moved a step closer to reality after a majority of MPs voted in favour of it in parliament. The cap, which

Officials apologise after vulnerable adult with cancer died ‘with no dignity’ in uninhabitable home

By Laura Paterson, Reporter25th November 2021News Scotland

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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