Housing choice can ‘pay big dividends’ for people needing care
Housing options need to improve so people in later life have better access to care and support services if they need.
A discussion document, published...
Clear strategy needed for adult social care, NAO finds
A fully-funded vision for adult social care should be prioritised, as its absence is hampering the sector, a report by the National Audit Office...
‘Sustained push’ needed to reform social care
Reforms to social care are urgently needed to help tackle the ‘variable’ quality of support people living with dementia and their carers experience across...
Community support system ‘broken’, report finds
Investment in community support and provision for autistic people and individuals with learning disabilities is significantly below the level required, a group of MPs...
CMA decides against appealing court judgment in Care UK case
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has decided not to appeal a High Court judgment that found in favour of Care UK when charging...
More than 600,000 extra social care staff needed, research predicts
Up to 627,000 extra social care staff will be needed by 2030/31 to improve services and meet demand, research from The Health Foundation’s REAL...
Care operators reporting recovery with trend set to continue, says report
Care home operators are set to see occupancy rates slowly rise and profits steady as the impacts of the pandemic recede and demand for...
Care workers in Wales to receive Real Living Wage
Social care staff in Wales will receive the Real Living Wage as part of a package of measures to support the sector.
Currently £9.90 per...
Mandatory vaccination policy in care to be scrapped
Regulations making vaccines a condition of deployment for health and social care staff are set to be scrapped, the government has confirmed.
The move, which...
Fairway Homecare to open second office
Fairway Homecare is opening a second office as it targets to create more than 150 care jobs over the next 12 months.
The agency and...
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