A fresh warning has been issued to national and local government about the consequences of failing to support home care services across Scotland. Scottish Care, the representative body for independent
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Leading doctors have welcomed Downing Street’s decision to merge health and social care into one political portfolio. The Royal College of GPs said the state of social care “profoundly” impacts
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We have put extra funding in. There are more beds available across the system, we’ve reduced the number of delayed discharges of elderly people who would otherwise have been in
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Local authorities are to be allowed to raise council tax by up to 5.99% next year, after a further relaxation of the Government-imposed cap to address shortfalls in funding for
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Plans to give local authorities the power to raise council tax by an extra 1% will generate only a fraction of the funding shortfall in social care, a senior Labour
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A Tory MP has urged ministers to consider “centralised funding” of social care in a similar system to the NHS. Huw Merriman made the call as he highlighted the situation
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The Northern Ireland Association of Social Workers (NIASW) has welcomed the publication of a report on the future of adult social care. The report was produced by a panel of
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More than 1,400 people with dementia who are well enough to go home will be stranded in hospital on Christmas Day, the Alzheimer’s Society said. Charity bosses blamed a lack
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Scotland’s care sector needs an extra £1 billion of funding, MSPs have heard. Donald Macaskill, Scottish Care chief executive, told a Holyrood committee the cash was a “conservative” estimate of
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