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This is the conclusion of a Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) study, which also found that the government should offer inducements to housing providers to create attractive alternatives.

Community health services are overburdened, underinvested and at risk of cutbacks’ according to a new survey from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN).

As the coalition government prepares to publish its long-awaited adult social care White Paper, the Local Government Association (LGA) has predicted the cost of care will double within a generation unless the current attempt to reform the system is a success.

Staffordshire council has handed responsibility for delivering its adult social care services to the local NHS Trust.

Birmingham city council has approved plans to transform Bournville College into a £35m retirement village and dementia care facility following a meeting of city planners. The development comprises a 208 apartment village, a 60-bed care home and a 45-bed specialist dementia care facility when it opens in 2015, making it the fifth extra care development in the city.

Local authorities believe that health and wellbeing boards could be the first step in the move towards integrated health and social care.

Local Government Association (LGA) chairman Sir Merrick Cockell wrote to the main political parties last month urging them to adopt a funding model which caps the amount of risk individuals are exposed to and work with local government to ensure its successful implementation.

A new dementia service has been launched in Walsall with £343,000 of funding from its council. Pathways for Life, a partnership between the Accord Group and Age UK Walsall will provide support for 3,000 people with dementia, their carers and families by offering specialised support and advice from different bases across the borough.

Suffolk council has chosen Care UK as preferred provider to manage the local authority’s care homes and well-being centres.

Provision for people with learning disabilities in Somerset may be outsourced to the private sector following a cabinet decision earlier this month that this would be one of three options it would be willing to consider.