10 February, 2021
10 February, 2021
Focusing on effect of Act on carers, study finds that, contrary to expectations, volume of assessments, numbers of carers accessing support, and expenditure on carer specific services have all decreased since 2014
4 February, 2021
Greater investment in social care should form part of new narrative to replace 'crisis with prevention and wellbeing, burden with investment and variation with fairness’
4 February, 2021
Failure to make alternative arrangements meant daughter was compelled to continue providing care without payment for more than a year
29 January, 2021
New NHS digital annual figures also show that more than half of the 6,000 plus agreements outstanding at year-end were started in the previous 12 months
25 January, 2021
White paper includes proposals for new ways of arranging and providing care and support and shifts focus of commissioning towards outcomes linked to quality of service and improved well-being
21 January, 2021 Open access
23 December, 2020
Government urged to act as a result of the 'profoundly adverse effects' that the coronavirus pandemic has had on disabled people's access to services
8 December, 2020
Major public body's failure to take prompt and effective action to ensure that agreed recommendations are properly implemented is 'unacceptable', says Ombudsman
3 December, 2020
New funding is in addition to the £505 million paid to councils in May 2020
27 November, 2020 Open access
New research warns that government must urgently improve support to address impact of caring on carers’ health, finances, and wellbeing during the pandemic
26 November, 2020
City Council also found to have left insufficient time to complete the process of moving the care home resident to accommodation within its budget limits
26 November, 2020
Disabled man was left to pay for some of his own care when capital reduced below self-funding threshold
24 November, 2020 Open access
Without further funding, caring arrangements that millions rely on will break down and costs will be paid for by society and the economy, ADASS warns
23 November, 2020 Open access
Age UK says that social care was grossly underfunded before the pandemic and while the government’s emergency injection of funds has helped, it has simply not been enough
16 November, 2020 Open access
6 November, 2020 Open access
Directors of Adult Social Services call for discrete new winter funding, including £1.2 billion for family carer breaks
5 November, 2020
New research finds that only 15 per cent of carers had received an assessment in the year up to March 2020
22 October, 2020
However, while calling for £7bn annual increase in funding as a starting point, MPs say that full cost of adequate funding is likely to run to tens of billions of pounds
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