Nearly 8 million unpaid carers are ‘propping up’ the broken care system
Report calls for better support for the UK's growing army of unpaid family carers.
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Social Care
Adult social care services on brink of collapse, survey shows
Some councils in England ‘cannot go on’ without long-term funding to underpin care.
Read moreTens of thousands of vulnerable Brits ‘trapped’ in social care debt
GMB investigation also found that over a thousand care users have been taken to court over debts.
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Social care funding plans branded costly and unfair
Proposals for older people in England almost as costly as making all care free, say critics.
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Adult social care sector ‘could soon be on its knees’, MPs warn
"Credible plan to sustain underfunded care sector needed this year", Public Accounts Committee report warns.
Read moreCouncils cannot cap personal budgets under Care Act, Ombudsman warns
Warning comes after Ombudsman discovered Wiltshire Council had a policy of placing care users into bands.
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Disabled people struggle to afford food and heating, study says
Charity says quarter of disabled adults have less than £50 a week left after tax and housing costs.
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Thousands of patients to get personalised NHS budgets
Around 350,000 people could soon qualify for right to select and pay for treatments through bespoke care plan.
Read moreSocial care users subjected to poor quality services, admits Jeremy Hunt
Jeremy Hunt: "Too many people experience care that is not of the quality we would all want for our own...
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Corbyn urged to win votes by pledging £10bn more on care for disabled elderly
Fabian Society research identifies shortfall in funding for 1.2 million older people.
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Vulnerable children are ‘paying the price’ for Tory austerity, say Labour
Labour analysis found that children's services in England are facing are £2bn funding shortfall by 2020.
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Councils used as ‘human shields’ for cuts, says John McDonnell
Shadow chancellor accuses government of forcing cash-strapped councils to absorb cuts.
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More than 1m UK older people risk ‘withering away’ from hunger
Cross-party group of politicians says isolation and cuts are driving ‘hidden’ malnutrition.
Read more‘Carillion-style Pandora’s Box’ could hit patient care in the NHS, warns Unite
Jeremy Hunt urged to prevent further private limited companies being established by NHS trusts in England.
Read moreSocial care postcode gap widens for older people
Council funding cuts have reduced help for the old in deprived areas, study shows.
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Study links Tory cuts to 120,000 deaths
Landmark study strongly suggests that by 2020 austerity policies will have caused 120,000 excess deaths.
Read moreSocial workers blow the whistle on ‘unfair and unsafe’ adult care system
Survey shows that only 1 in 4 social workers feel England's adult social care system is 'fair and safe', due...
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Scottish Government seeks reassurances over disability benefit cuts
Scottish Health Secretary Shona Robison is seeking assurances there will be no cuts to disability benefits for people set to...
Read moreBrexit ‘could spell further trouble’ for the care home sector, experts warn
Recruitment experts warn Brexit poses a threat to the availability of skilled care workers, at a time when the sector...
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Tory cuts eroding disabled people’s human rights, UN told
Seven years of cuts to social security benefits and health and social care budgets have eroded disabled people's rights, equality...
Read more8 in 10 unpaid carers feel ‘lonely or socially isolated’, research shows
Charities call on the government to provide more support for unpaid carers, including regular respite breaks from caring.
Read moreChildren’s social services ‘pushed to breaking point’, warn Council leaders
Councils forced to exceed their budgets by £605 million in order to protect children at immediate risk of harm.
Read moreWhat you might not know about funding as an unpaid carer
There are a number of ways that care can be funded.
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Social care providers to escape fines for minimum wage violations
Concerns that minimum wage enforcement activity could destabilise an already struggling social care sector.
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