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ADULT SOCIAL CARE
CQC: Stronger leadership needed to improve Blackpool's inadequate adult social care
By Joe Lepper | 07 August 2025
The Care Quality Commission has rated Blackpool Council’s adult social care inadequate, warning that ‘stronger leadership’ will be needed for it to improve.
COVID
Councils demand greater recognition in emergency planning
By Martin Ford | 05 August 2025
The Local Government Association (LGA) has demanded recognition of councils as an ‘equal and trus...
REORGANISATION
Reorganisation plans to include social care partnerships
By Martin Ford | 04 August 2025
Councils will have to set out plans for partnership working in social care as part of reorganisat...
ADULT SOCIAL CARE
The rise of AI in social care
By Ted Edmondson | 30 July 2025
David Rees and Ted Edmondson look at how local authorities are using AI in the provision of care ...
ADULT SOCIAL CARE
Action and aspiration
By Jess McGregor | 30 July 2025
The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services’ Spring Survey has highlighted the need for...
ADULT SOCIAL CARE
Triangulating data
By Kari Gerstheimer | 30 July 2025
A collaboration between a charity that supports people to access their legal rights to social car...
SOCIAL CARE
Calls for higher pay for social care as UK worker numbers continue to fall
By Lee Peart | 29 July 2025
The Government has faced calls for higher pay and better conditions for social care workers as th...
FINANCE
Short term gain could lead to long term pain
By Adele Taylor | 28 July 2025
A lack of investment in adult social care prevention even for a short period of time will have lo...
ADULT SOCIAL CARE
'Lack of understanding' in Government on social care, says LGA chief
By Martin Ford | 28 July 2025
A 'lack of understanding' about social care remains in Government following mistakes made during ...
ADULT SOCIAL CARE
Care prevention spending drops by 10%
By Izzy Lepone | 15 July 2025
Overstretched budgets mean that care leaders have been forced to reduce spending on prevention by...
ADULT SOCIAL CARE
Government letting down families on social care, says Dilnot
By Lee Peart | 14 July 2025
Governments of all colours have underfunded means-tested social care provision by local governmen...
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