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City council requests huge bailout as plans reveal £200 million in cuts from social services

By Jonathan Bunn, Reporter20th February 2024News England

Birmingham City Council has requested a £1.25 billion bailout from the Government as it bids to recover from declaring effective bankruptcy, documents show. Budget papers published overnight also confirm the

Think tank urges action to stop ‘slow erosion’ of primary and community care

By Storm Newton, Reporter15th February 2024News England

Primary and community care should be prioritised to ensure England’s health system is effective and sustainable, a think tank has said. The King’s Fund also warned that the “answer to

MPs warn councils need billions a year to end broken ‘out of control’ crisis

By Jonathan Bunn, Reporter1st February 2024News England

The “out of control” crisis in local government driven by long-term funding constraints and a “broken” financial system can only be ended by the Government providing billions of pounds more

Private equity firms ‘ripping off the taxpayer’ in children’s social care sector

By Abbie Llewelyn, Reporter31st January 2024News England

Private equity firms are “ripping off the taxpayer” in the children’s social care sector and making huge profits, Parliament has been told. Concerns were raised by peers in Westminster over

Ban on dependants will allow ‘more manageable approach to care recruitment’ – Minister

By Aine Fox, Reporter30th January 2024News England

Banning overseas care workers from bringing loved ones to the UK will ensure a “more manageable approach” to staffing the sector, a minister has said. The new rules will come

Government confirm ban on dependants of overseas care workers to come into effect from March

By Aine Fox, Reporter30th January 2024News England

Overseas care workers coming to the UK will no longer be allowed to bring dependants under new rules from mid-March aimed at tackling “unsustainable and unfair levels of migration”. The

Councils call for end to ‘short-term’ social care measures as emergency funding confirmed

By Jonathan Bunn, Reporter24th January 2024News England

Council leaders have called for reform of local government finance and an end to “short-term” measures after Michael Gove confirmed authorities will receive £500 million in emergency funding for social

Engage: How digital technology can support care providers with winter pressures

By Holly Irwin & Claire Smout, Skills For Care24th January 2024Engage

Claire Smout, Head of Digital Skills and Holly Irwin, Head of Practice Innovation at Skills for Care discuss how digital innovations can support with the winter pressures facing the adult

Short-term funding leaving social care in ‘sustained state of crisis’, report suggests

By Aine Fox, Reporter15th January 2024News England

Millions of pounds of funding into social care last year is said to have made no difference to the financial sustainability of the majority of providers surveyed for a report

DHSC announce new career path and qualifications aimed at boosting domestic care workforce

By Aine Fox, Reporter10th January 2024News England

New qualifications and investment in apprenticeships are among fresh efforts to boost the domestic workforce in social care in a Government bid to change perceptions of jobs in the sector.

Waspi women criticise ‘bizarre and unjustified’ ruling out of compensation

Sara Sharif’s father and stepmother branded ‘executioners’ as pair are jailed for life

Letby legal team seeks fresh bid to challenge convictions of child serial killer