Social care visa applications have plummeted since the introduction of a ban on overseas workers bringing dependants into the UK, according to the latest figures.
CIPFA’s Zachary Scott explains the importance of spending on preventing ill health, rather than waiting to treat acute illness, and outlines work the institute is carrying out with the Health...
Fragmented funding in the face of rising waiting lists and chronic understaffing has brought the adult social care sector “to its knees”, according to an influential group of MPs.
Proposals to improve training and career prospects for care workers to help alleviate an ongoing workforce crisis may only “scratch the surface” and ignore the impact of low pay, experts have said.
Existing council spending pressures and the lack of long-term funding certainty could put the government’s 10-year reform programme at risk, the National Audit Office has said.
Growing costs of supporting children with special educational needs and disabilities are creating huge deficits in school budgets and could force some councils to issue Section 114 notices, a senior...
England’s largest independent children’s care providers recorded profits of £310m in 2021-22, according to the Local Government Association, prompting renewed calls for greater government oversight.
Most public services will remain worse in four years’ time than they were just before Covid-19 – and most of them were already worse than they were in 2010 – CIPFA and the Institute for Government’s...
Councils will need £8.3bn more funding to meet care demand in 2032-33, but this number would need to more than double if authorities are to improve care access and fund reforms, the Health Foundation...
Unexpected cuts and other financial pressures have been listed by integrated care system leaders as being among the biggest issues they face, despite them being proud of the work done so far.
Almost three-quarters of councils in England have used reserves to pay for ballooning adult social care costs – a fact care leaders have highlighted as unsustainable.
The failure to adopt radical and fully funded long term children’s care reforms represents a “missed opportunity”, a House of Lords Committee has said.