‘Shout out louder about the needs of investment in children’
The chair of the children and young people’s board has called for investment in childrens’ services.
Social Care: ‘An urgent need for reform’
The parliamentary Health and Social Care Committee has asked the government to provide an extra £7bn in annual investment to help support adult social care. It comes in the wake of a recent National Audit Office report which highlighted several shortcomings in the current care system. Since 2009, adult social care funding has been cut […]
Time to ‘make a choice’ on social care
This is not a policy problem. It is a political challenge which our politicians need to rise to meet.
Social care cuts coming in the middle of the pandemic
Early signs that councils are having to launch fire-sales of assets as costs of covid become clear
Peak uncertainty: This is what covid might do to our politics
From social care to universal basic income, every area of policy is about to undergo massive generational change.
Warning raised over Coronavirus bill impact on elderly and disabled
Charities and campaigners are sounding the alarm over an emergency bill tackling the coronavirus, amid fears that it threatens services for elderly and disabled people.
Paying people to house NHS patients is not a solution to our social care crisis
Norman Lamb on why NHS pilot should never have been considered in the first place
Revealed: Social care and austerity driving councils to the brink
Investigation by Politics.co.uk reveals that government cuts are driving councils towards financial crisis
2017: The year the full effects of austerity are felt
On housing and social care, the effect of austerity has now seeped into the lives of the middle class.
How government policy can help give people a ‘good death’
Cancer charity calls for better funding of end of life care
