Your house won’t form part of the financial assessment if your husband needs to move into care. It will be exempt from the means test...

The Government has announced additional funding support of £478m which will allow people who leave hospital with potential care and...

98% of local authority social services departments say they have worries about the financial sustainability of residential and nursing...

When your care is funded by the local authority, your assessable income is used to support your care costs. The Personal Expense...

The challenges of dealing with a loved one’s care need cannot be underestimated and it is likely to have a huge impact on those closest....

We are all well aware of the toll which the pandemic has had on the NHS and the challenges of dealing with the treatment back log which...

The UK media has been less than complimentary in its assessment of the government’s care plans: The Guardian suggested that Mr Johnson...

It has long been argued that the solution to our social care crisis needed cross party agreement and co-operation. The Government’s go it...

Provisions set out in the Coronavirus Act 2020 to relax provisions for social care have finally been removed more than four months after...

The reforms to our care system are an update of those which the Conservatives had planned to bring in five years ago, based on the work...

Although the national insurance and tax increases will start next April, the care cap doesn’t begin until October 2023 and only for care...

Former Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron described the means test system that forces people to sell their homes to pay for care...