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CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Child referred to social care every 49 seconds, figures reveal
By Laura Sharman | 12 January 2018
Referrals to council children's services reached 646,120 last year, according to new figures from...
SOCIAL CARE
Scottish homecare services under threat
By Hiba Mahamadi | 11 January 2018
Almost 40% of care at home services in Scotland handed back their contracts to local authorities ...
HEALTH
Council leaders welcome decrease in delayed transfers
By William Eichler | 11 January 2018
Council leaders have welcomed a reduction in the number of days patients who are ready to be disc...
HEALTH
New name is a smokescreen for inaction
By Michael Burton | 10 January 2018
The new labels for the government departments responsible for local government and health and car...
SOCIAL CARE
Social care directors in honours list
By Michael Burton | 02 January 2018
Social services directors featured prominently in the New Year’s Honours List.
FINANCE
Government must heed children warnings in finance settlement
By Alison Michalska | 12 December 2017
Alison Michalska claims children’s services are becoming a blue light service as she warns the co...
HEALTH
Lord Kerslake resigns in protest at underfunded NHS and social care
By Victor Smart | 11 December 2017
Lord Kerslake has resigned as chair of one of the NHS' largest hospital trusts in a high-profile ...
SOCIAL CARE
County wins legal battle over cost of local care
By Mark Conrad | 11 December 2017
Essex CC has successfully defeated a judicial review of the fees it pays to local care home opera...
HUMAN RESOURCES
Council leaders demand end to pay cap
By Sam Clayden | 07 December 2017
Nearly 100 council leaders have written to the chancellor demanding extra funding for workers and...
FINANCE
Lawrenson in statutory services warning
By Dan Peters | 30 November 2017
Councils that deliver social care will not have sustainable statutory services by 2019/20, the in...
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