The number of children needing foster care in England could rise by around a third within the next decade, but many councils are unprepared, research warns. The Social Market Foundation
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Six former health and social care ministers have backed proposals to reform the social care workforce in the absence of long-awaited Government plans. The Future Social Care Coalition (FSCC) put
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Boris Johnson has been warned the “time for excuses is over” as Labour pressed him to urgently bring forward his social care reform plans. Health minister Helen Whately outlined her
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Dominic Cummings tried to fast track a £530,000 grant to an external data team at the start of the pandemic – bypassing normal Whitehall procedures, leaked emails suggest. Boris Johnson’s
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Ministers have insisted that the Government is committed to delivering proposals for social care reform before the end of the year, after MPs were told that a “crucial” meeting on
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Social care leaders in England have called on the Government to publish its proposed reforms of the sector before parliament breaks for the summer. In a letter to Prime Minister
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The Government has apologised for “failing” rape victims over years of plunging conviction levels, as it set out plans for a “system and culture change” which will include focusing more
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Social services are overly focused on “investigating” families struggling to care for their children rather than providing support to help them through their difficulties, a report has found. The Independent
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Boris Johnson twice described Health Secretary Matt Hancock as “hopeless” early in the coronavirus pandemic, according to private messages published by former aide Dominic Cummings. Mr Cummings (pictured) published a
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Many care providers in England are living hand to mouth and the Government appears “complacent” about the potential for local markets to fail, MPs have warned. The coronavirus pandemic has
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