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POLICY AND POLITICS
Domestic recruitment and retention challenges persist in adult social care
By Liz Wells | 15 October 2025
England’s adult social care sector faces long-term recruitment and retention challenges as it is projected to need around 470,000 extra posts by 2040, a report has revealed.
ADULT SOCIAL CARE
Social care fair pay 'unlikely to be sufficient'
By Martin Ford | 09 October 2025
Doubt has been cast on whether the adult social care fair pay agreement will have the impact clai...
COUNTY COUNCILS' NETWORK
CCN is the natural home for all non-metropolitan unitaries
By Simon Edwards | 07 October 2025
As reorganisation changes the map further, the County Councils' Network looks forward to welcomin...
ADULT SOCIAL CARE
CQC: Stronger leadership needed to improve Blackpool's inadequate adult social care
By Joe Lepper | 07 August 2025
The Care Quality Commission has rated Blackpool Council’s adult social care inadequate, warning t...
COVID
Councils demand greater recognition in emergency planning
By Martin Ford | 05 August 2025
The Local Government Association (LGA) has demanded recognition of councils as an ‘equal and trus...
REORGANISATION
Reorganisation plans to include social care partnerships
By Martin Ford | 04 August 2025
Councils will have to set out plans for partnership working in social care as part of reorganisat...
ADULT SOCIAL CARE
The rise of AI in social care
By Ted Edmondson | 30 July 2025
David Rees and Ted Edmondson look at how local authorities are using AI in the provision of care ...
ADULT SOCIAL CARE
Action and aspiration
By Jess McGregor | 30 July 2025
The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services’ Spring Survey has highlighted the need for...
ADULT SOCIAL CARE
Triangulating data
By Kari Gerstheimer | 30 July 2025
A collaboration between a charity that supports people to access their legal rights to social car...
SOCIAL CARE
Calls for higher pay for social care as UK worker numbers continue to fall
By Lee Peart | 29 July 2025
The Government has faced calls for higher pay and better conditions for social care workers as th...
FINANCE
Short term gain could lead to long term pain
By Adele Taylor | 28 July 2025
A lack of investment in adult social care prevention even for a short period of time will have lo...
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- Reorganisation and fair funding will 'throw cards up in the air' on budgets
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- How productive is local government – and are there any savings left?
- Bringing Birmingham back from the brink
- EXCLUSIVE: London boroughs shunning fixed-term tenancies despite housing pressures
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£176,061 – £196,002
Lead Change. Shape Lives. Be Part of Something New. Apply for this job
Assistant Director, People
£89,116 - £104,843 per annum
Experience the best of both worlds with our flexible hybrid working arrangements. Apply for this job
Executive Director (Children’s Services)
up to £137,831
Are you an experienced and inspirational leader of Children’s Services? Apply for this job
- Reorganisation and fair funding will 'throw cards up in the air' on budgets
- Cohesion rallying call as hate crime reaches record levels
- How productive is local government – and are there any savings left?
- Bringing Birmingham back from the brink
- EXCLUSIVE: London boroughs shunning fixed-term tenancies despite housing pressures
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