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More Social Workers Lost
Just over 1,000 social workers have been removed from the register despite paying the £90 fee and meeting continuing professional...
Feb 1, 2023
Lessons Must Not Be Lost
The Department of Health and Social Care is in talks with the local authorities who were piloting the now delayed social care reform as...
Jan 31, 2023
Complaints About Social Care Increase
The cost of providing care has become an increasingly common theme in the complaints made to the Local Government and Social Care...
Jan 30, 2023
Sickened by Delays
A woman has said she is "sickened" by the delay on the cap on care costs. Paula Conner, 75, told the BBC she pays £1,200 a week for a...
Jan 27, 2023
Reforms are about more than not having to sell your home...
Reform to our care system is about more than not having to sell your home to pay for care, it is about providing more care at home,...
Jan 26, 2023
Bed Un-Blocking?
Thousands of extra medically fit patients will be discharged from hospitals into community care settings, including care homes, over the...
Jan 24, 2023
Depleted workforce
More than 9 in 10 NHS leaders have warned of a social care workforce crisis in their area, which they expect to get worse this winter....
Jan 23, 2023
It’s Too Depressing
When asked why they hadn’t thought about planned for or spoken to family about care, 29% of those over 75 said it was because the thought...
Jan 19, 2023
Positive Care Quality
Overall, when people have been able to actually access the care they need, the quality of care at the point of delivery is mostly good....
Jan 18, 2023
Out of Sight
A report from the House of Lords Adult Social Care Committee, suggests that while 10 million of us are affected by the adult social care...
Jan 17, 2023
94% say not enough
More than 9 in 10 adult social services directors in England do not believe there is the ‘funding’ or ‘workforce’ to meet care costs of...
Jan 16, 2023
Getting Help at Home
It is common for families over the Christmas period to realise that older relatives may not be managing on their own and maybe in need of...
Jan 12, 2023
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