ADASS calls for urgent £480m cash injection to support “exhausted” social care sector
A leading social care organisation is calling for an immediate cash boost for social care and new recruits to support its “exhausted” workforce and ensure…
Government proposes to make £1bn available for councils to spend on social care in 2021/22
The Ministry for Housing Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has announced the provisional local government finance settlement for 2021/22, which lays out the annual determination…
More than 178,000 people used their own money to buy social care in 2019-20
NHS Digital has published findings from the Personal Social Services Adult Social Care Survey for 2019-2020, which explores social care service users’ experiences and trends…
Southwark Council adopts virtual approach to prescribing daily living solutions
The social care team at Southwark Council is using virtual technology to enable them to more efficiently prescribe feasible outcomes to support activities of daily…
NHS Digital announces new social care standards to support more person-centred care
New standards for integrating key health and social care information will ensure services can work together better to provide more personalised care, according to NHS…
National care bodies launch assistive tech commission to encourage integration across social care
Senior woman with female caregiver Two national care bodies have joined forces to make recommendations to government, the health, care and housing sectors and the…
MPs call for urgent £7bn annual increase in social care funding as starting point for reform
The Health and Social Care Committee has published a new report exploring the reforms needed to the system of funding social care and the level…
Social care sector should receive greater support to become technologically enabled, report suggests
Gavin Bashar UK Managing Director of Tunstall Healthcare A new report from Public Policy Projects (PPP) and Tunstall Healthcare is calling for the UK health…
Care providers urged to prevent further spread of COVID-19 after spike in new cases
A letter has been issued to all care providers, Local Authority Chief Executives and Directors of Adult Social Care in England, which outlines the different…
Charity completes transfer of social care provider to offer assistive tech service to residents
Blackwood Homes and Care has successfully completed the transfer of Freespace, a not-for-profit care provider in Edinburgh, which will see the charity support 40 disabled…