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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

The cost of the care challenge

By Michael Burton | 15 May 2019

The recent collapse into administration of care provider Four Seasons has highlighted the huge fi...

ADULT SOCIAL CARE

Four Seasons Health Care slides into administration

By Martin Ford | 30 April 2019

Funding has been found to prop up more than 300 care homes as Four Seasons Health Care enters adm...

HEALTH

Minister in plea for cross-party care consensus

By Ann McGauran | 30 April 2019

Care minster Caroline Dinenage has said she 'would dearly like there to be cross-party consensus'...

SOCIAL CARE

Tens of thousands more adults seeking care, think-tank finds

By Martin Ford | 26 April 2019

Rising disability among working-age adults and a growth in the number of over-65s is increasing p...

FINANCE

Select committee chair urges scrapping of social care Green Paper

By Martin Ford | 25 April 2019

A senior backbencher has called for the social care Green Paper to be scrapped.

FINANCE

Uncertainty 'unacceptable' for council budget planners

By Martin Ford | 12 April 2019

Financial uncertainty in local government has reached an ‘unacceptable’ level, it has been claimed.

WHITEHALL

Social care precept 'avoided catastrophe'

By Dan Peters | 11 April 2019

The introduction of the social care precept ‘avoided catastrophe’ but the sector still faces a fu...

ADULT SOCIAL CARE

Investing to save in Havering

By Barbara Nicholls | 09 April 2019

Havering LBC came third in the iMPOWER list of the top councils for providing adult social care. ...

ADULT SOCIAL CARE

White Van Man on... modern care

09 April 2019

It’s great all this technology which means our old folk can potter about at home with just Alexa ...

WHITEHALL

Government misses fifth deadline for social care Green Paper

By Martin Ford | 01 April 2019

The publication of the Government’s long-awaited adult social care Green Paper has been delayed f...