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PAY

Adult social care provision 'perilous'

16 March 2023

A third of adult social care providers are considering leaving the market, a conference has heard.

ADULT SOCIAL CARE

No extra social care funding for struggling councils

By Martin Ford | 13 March 2023

A minister said councils would receive further support if they were found to be in need of improv...

WHITEHALL

Pride, innovation... and disappointment

By Karen Fuller | 15 February 2023

Karen Fuller sets out Oxfordshire CC’s experiences of preparing to pilot social care charging ref...

HEALTH

Sector given role in NHS plan

By Paul Marinko | 31 January 2023

Local government will join an ‘expert group’ with the voluntary and community sector and care pro...

ADULT SOCIAL CARE

Question mark over care ratings

By Martin Ford | 18 January 2023

Threatened Ofsted-style quality ratings for adult social care and integrated systems may not be i...

PAY

Time for a social care system refresh

By Paul Marinko | 18 January 2023

Social care is beset by a perfect storm of problems. What needs to change, and are there any chin...

SOCIAL CARE

Sneaking a peek at league tables

By Heather Jameson | 18 January 2023

It will be down to the Government to decide if it wants league tables, says Heather Jameson. 'And...

EDUCATION

'Significant weaknesses' in two-thirds of SEND services

By Martin Ford | 18 November 2022

‘Significant weaknesses’ were found in more than two-thirds of services for children with special...

EDUCATION

Leader admits SEND report was 'uncomfortable reading'

By Martin Ford | 10 November 2022

Kent CC is at risk of Government intervention following a damning indictment of its provision for...

ADULT SOCIAL CARE

Care inspections could risk councils being 'set up to fail'

04 November 2022

The reintroduction of an inspection regime for adult social care could risk councils being ‘set u...

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