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ADULT SOCIAL CARE
Social care assessments will not be 'scary'
By Martin Ford | 14 April 2023
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has told councils ‘we aren’t as scary as people thought we were...
OFSTED
Kent receives improvement notice for SEND failings
By Martin Ford | 06 April 2023
An improvement notice has been issued to Kent CC after it failed to turn around its special educa...
ADULT SOCIAL CARE
Perilous pressure
By Ann McGauran | 20 March 2023
Ann McGauran reports from this year’s Care England Conference, where key figures discussed how to...
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...
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- 'Hard to see' what underpins LGR other than politics, says Reform
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- LGPS performing well, pension advisers say
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