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SOCIAL CARE

Care White Paper must change 'frightening picture' of future

By Martin Ford | 02 September 2019

A charity has called for wholesale reform of the care sector in the Government’s promised White P...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Promising findings from social work pilots

By Naomi Larsson | 19 August 2019

Devolving budgets to frontline workers to directly support families could reduce the likelihood o...

SOCIAL CARE

All managers have to anticipate

By Blair McPherson | 16 August 2019

Managers need to be able to distinguish growing problems from everyday problems, says Blair Mcphe...

BUSINESS

Acquisition delivers revenue boost for Mears

By Martin Ford | 14 August 2019

Mears’ acquisition of a rival social housing business has helped drive up its revenues so far thi...

ADULT SOCIAL CARE

Social care feels the squeeze on staffing

By Michael Burton | 14 August 2019

The increasing shortage of adult care staff has been highlighted in two reports last week, with t...

HEALTH

Language change for DToC

By Dan Peters | 12 August 2019

The term ‘delayed transfers of care [DToC] beds’ should be scrapped to ‘support a greater focus o...

ADULT SOCIAL CARE

Report: 580,000 more social workers needed by 2035

By Martin Ford | 05 August 2019

More than 500,000 social care jobs in England will need to be filled by 2035, a new report has pr...

HEALTH

How 5G Will Make Cities Smarter

By Brian Jackson | 25 July 2019

Local authority funding has dropped by 21% in the last decade. Head of BT surveillance argues Bri...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Children's services progress 'slow and uneven'

By Paul Marinko | 22 July 2019

Ofsted has described the progress of Reading BC to improve its children’s services as ‘slow, unev...

HEALTH

Impact of Integrated Care Fund 'remains unclear'

By Laura Sharman | 18 July 2019

The impact of the Integrated Care Fund in Wales remains ‘unclear’ despite a £385m Welsh Governmen...

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