Care homes could face widespread closures under new social care reforms, as new analysis warns government has ‘seriously underestimated’ the costs of its proposals. England’s largest councils and care providers
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Ministers were not sitting in an “ivory tower” when decisions were being made about how to protect care home residents during the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic, the High
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Ministers have begun mounting a defence after two women whose fathers died complained about a Government “failure” to protect care home residents during the Covid outbreak. Cathy Gardner (pictured) and
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Two women whose fathers died from Covid-19 have begun a High Court fight after complaining of Government failure to protect care home residents during the pandemic. Cathy Gardner and Fay
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Information about the impact of isolation on care home residents cut off from their loved ones during the pandemic was “strongly out of balance” with the evidence available on the
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Campaigners have accused the care minister of failing to listen after she attended the tail end of a meeting where families of care home residents shared the “soul-destroying” separation they
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Peers have inflicted defeats against the Government over its planned £86,000 cap on care costs. The House of Lords backed by 198 votes to 158, majority 40, a cross-party move
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There is a “moral obligation” to provide more psychological support to care home staff as they continue to live with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. That is the conclusion
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Scots aged over 65 would receive free residential care under a Scottish Labour government, leader Anas Sarwar will say at his party’s conference. Under the party’s plans, health consequentials provided
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Some care home residents “gave up and died” because they were unable to see loved ones during the pandemic, the outgoing chief executive of one of the UK’s biggest care
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