The Conservatives have not yet delivered on many of their 2019 manifesto pledges on health and social care, according to new analysis. The King’s Fund said that the Government’s progress
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A new report from MPs has warned that the Department of Health and Social Care is failing to provide the leadership required to deliver a social care sector sufficient to
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The next government has been urged to make social care a priority after years of reform being “consistently dodged or delayed”, a thinktank has said. In its annual Social Care
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Thousands of blind and partially sighted people are being denied their right to support after sight loss, a charity has said. A new report by the sight-loss charity RNIB suggests
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Staffing and time pressures in social care risk the “nightmare scenario” that older people could be being unjustifiably deprived of their freedom, Age UK has warned in a new report.
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The Home Office’s explanation for not consulting on its ban on foreign care workers bringing family members to the UK was “unconvincing”, a Lords committee said adding that it had
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Jeremy Hunt’s Budget was branded “incredibly disappointing” by some, with the social care and homelessness sectors among those saying they had missed out. Here is a flavour of the reaction
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Ministers have been urged to give assurances over the future of the delayed cap on social care costs, amid a “cloud of anxiety” worrying families. Conservative MP Tom Hunt said
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The number of people coming to the UK on a health and care visa is more than five times what it was when the route was introduced three years ago,
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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
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