The Government has been accused of lacking “direction and focus” on social care reform after it sought to address confusion over controversial spending plans announced earlier this month. The Department
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The first vote on the controversial National Care Service will be pushed beyond June, according to a letter from the minister responsible, to allow for “compromise” to be reached with
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Unions representing social care staff are calling for an urgent meeting with ministers to discuss the workforce “crisis” in the sector. The TUC and officials from Unison, Unite and the
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The Government has been condemned for halving the funding promised for the social care workforce in England, with one charity saying it is an “insult” to the sector. Millions of
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Funding promised for the social care workforce has been halved, the Government has confirmed. Millions of pounds have been removed from previously announced funding for a sector which a recent
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Delays in people leaving hospital in England could be costing an average of £395 per night, according to researchers at a health think tank. The direct costs of delayed discharges
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More than three-quarters of a million people in the UK with long Covid are likely to have first had the virus at least two years ago, new figures suggest. Some
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The country’s social care system is broken and “cannot be tweaked”, the Archbishop of Canterbury has told Parliament as he stressed the need for a fundamental rethink. While funding mattered,
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Millions of pounds of compensation promised by ministers to relatives of frontline health and social care workers who died during the pandemic may remain unclaimed, according to a union. Unison
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The struggle to afford food has affected a quarter of households where an NHS or social care worker lives and more than a fifth where teachers or teaching assistants live,
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