A leading thinktank has urged the government to tackle the growth of debt-fuelled private firms providing social care. In a…
September 19, 2019 Read more
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Families are facing months’ long waits to find care home places for their loved ones, new research has revealed. Data…
September 18, 2019 Read more
One in three social care workers plan to leave the sector in the next five years, according to research. The…
September 17, 2019 Read more
More than 2,000 elderly people were eviction from their care homes last year amid campaigners’ claims of ‘revenge evictions’. Figures…
September 13, 2019 Read more
Self-funding care home residents in England are charged an average of £12,500 a year more than those paid for by…
September 6, 2019 Read more
A cross-party group of MPs have called for the creation of a new national care body with NHS affiliation and…
September 5, 2019 Read more
Age UK has called for a “big cash injection” for social care in Wednesday’s Spending Review. A major new report…
September 2, 2019 Read more
Councils have warned they will be forced to decommission services if the Government fails to confirm more than £2.4bn in…
August 30, 2019 Read more
A lack of transparency among local authorities in England is “making it impossible” to learn from complaints made by the…
August 29, 2019 Read more
A care home resident dies every two days from a fall or serious accident in Scotland, figures have revealed. National…
August 21, 2019 Read more