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SOCIAL CARE
Outsourcing social care provision has 'failed to deliver' expected benefits
By Emily Twinch | 08 October 2024
English councils have increasingly outsourced social care provision but private firms have fallen...
CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Prediction of recruitment boost from scrapping of one-word judgements
By Emily Twinch | 11 September 2024
Getting rid of single-word Ofsted judgements for social services could help bring in and retain p...
SOCIAL CARE
Evolution, not revolution
By Lee Peart | 05 September 2024
Lee Peart considers the Fabian Society’s routemap to a National Care Service as a means of addres...
ADULT SOCIAL CARE
Inspections – the need for balance
By Nik Shah | 08 August 2024
Nik Shah assesses the implications of inspection routines on talent within local government.
ADULT SOCIAL CARE
Time for a new dawn
By Ewan King | 08 August 2024
A new vision is needed for social care, say Ewan King, Bill Love and Pip Cannons. They emphasise ...
KING'S SPEECH
The Government should see how far the Hillsborough Law can go
By Cllr Elizabeth Campbell | 23 July 2024
The leader of Kensington & Chelsea LBC reflects on what she says was missing from the King’s Spee...
SOCIAL CARE
Discharge rush heaps pressure on councils
By Martin Ford | 16 July 2024
A rush to discharge hospital patients is heaping more pressure on social care services, according...
GENERAL ELECTION
Managing the art of the possible
By Rob Whiteman CBE | 08 July 2024
Despite the urgent issues in local government that need addressing by the new Government, the rea...
HEALTH
Labour plan to reduce delayed discharges
By Paul Marinko | 20 June 2024
Labour is reportedly planning to buy thousands of beds in care homes in an effort to reduce the p...
FINANCE
Avoiding the iceberg
By David Phillips | 18 June 2024
David Phillips suggests steps the next government and councils should take to alleviate the secto...
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