Social care leader awarded OBE for contribution to social care in the voluntary and statutory sectors
The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) has announced that its Chief Executive, Kathryn Smith, received her Officer of the Order of the British Empire…
24 percent of people working in care left their jobs in 2023/24
International recruitment drove improvements in the adult social care workforce in the year to March 2024, but the sector faces ongoing domestic recruitment and retention…
Relationship reset with whoever forms next government needed as councils face more than £6bn funding gap, LGA says
A whitepaper has been published by the Local Government Association (LGA) setting out how a new relationship between central and local government - which provides…
Government invests more than £3m to transform tech in adult social care
Helen Whately, Minister for Social Care The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has announced that people who receive care will benefit from new…
Spring Budget 2023: What the assistive tech sector needs to know
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt Yesterday (15 March 2023), Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, unveiled the Spring Budget 2023, which sets out the…
Report suggests greater use of digital technology is a crucial step in reforming social care
James Bullion, Executive Director of Adult Social Care Services, Norfolk Tunstall Healthcare and County Councils Network (CCN) have published a report, which argues that the…
£96m boost to give tens of thousands of social care staff in Wales a £1,000 extra payment
Deputy Minister Julie Morgan Tens of thousands of social care staff who will be eligible for the real living wage from April 2022 will receive…
RESPONSE: Healthcare, social care and housing leaders share their views on social care reform whitepaper
Following the publication of the UK Government’s long-awaited adult social care reform whitepaper, which details its 10-year vision for the sector and provides information on…
RESPONSE: NHS backlogs will take longer to clear if social care pressures are not tackled
Danny Mortimer, Chief Executive of NHS Employers and Deputy Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation, has responded to the recent snap survey published by the…
ADASS urgently cries out for the UK Government to stabilise the social care system in England
A snap survey of the state of social care services in November 2021 has revealed a rapidly deteriorating picture of hundreds of thousands of older…