A £2bn funding gap in children’s social services must be rectified to deal with growing referrals related to domestic abuse, according to the Local Government Association.
The head of the National Audit Office has warned that social care in England is a “Cinderella service” in danger of collapse and needs more attention from ministers.
Councils in England will receive an extra £150m for adult social care next year, Sajid Javid announced today as he confirmed the local government finance settlement for 2018-19.
Leading local government figures are warning multiple councils could be at risk of financial collapse after a county council dramatically imposed emergency spending controls.
Hidden hunger and malnutrition among older people has reached such a scale that social care providers should be put under a new duty to deal with it, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Hunger has...
Care Quality Commission chief executive Sir David Behan has announced that he is to step down from the role in the summer after six years at the inspectorate.
CIPFA has called for urgent action on children’s social care as a survey out today revealed the duty has become the chief concern of upper tier council finance heads.
The UK’s rising social care costs could be met by raising national insurance contributions by 1%, which would yield £5bn a year, research has suggested.
The government is to give social care providers time to address outstanding £400m ‘sleep-in’ pay liabilities but no extra money to meet historic costs, prompting criticism from...
Nottinghamshire County Council has been found to be “vicariously liable” and will face damages for the physical and sexual abuse suffered by a woman while she was in foster care.
Nearly nine in 10 councils in England could face a shortfall in care home places by 2022 unless urgent action is taken, according to research from Which?.
Councils in England are struggling to meet their obligations to prevent, reduce, or delay the need for care as set out in the Care Act 2014, according to a report from the Red Cross.
Plymouth Council and the local CCG have integrated their finances, despite covering different areas, not being able pool all their funds and having different accounting systems
County council leaders have written to health secretary Jeremy Hunt asking him to reconsider proposals to withhold social care funding if bed-blocking targets are not met.
Social care funding cuts has helped drive an increase in the number of UK care homes on the brink of collapse, according to research from an accountancy firm.
