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July 25, 2020

Fourteen people a day wiped out financially by care bills in England, finds Age UK

Older people in England who have to buy their own care spent more than £7 billion in the 12 months since Boris Johnson took office.
July 16, 2020

Ombudsman highlights where councils in England can improve services to homeless people

In a new report, the Ombudsman examines the lessons that councils can learn from cases it investigated under the Homelessness Reduction Act, introduced in 2018.
May 25, 2020

Polling finds a growing political consensus on social care

There is a cross-party consensus building around social care, free at the point of use and funded by general taxation, new polling has found.
April 7, 2020

Public satisfaction with the NHS rose sharply in 2019

The improvement is likely to be linked to high profile announcements of more funding for the service before and while the survey was carried out.
April 6, 2020

Boom in online library memberships since coronavirus lockdown

Councils are providing additional online access to resources under the hashtag #LibrariesFromHome, extending online memberships for no extra fee, and all fines incurred as a result of the closures will be waived.
February 25, 2020

More council funding needed 'to prevent children reaching crisis-point'

A sharp rise in need for urgent child protection services has coincided with reductions in central government funding for councils.
February 24, 2020

More than half of public surveyed support local tourism levy

More than half of residents think their council should have powers to introduce a local tourism levy, according to a new survey by the Local Government Association.
February 16, 2020

Critical support for former child soldiers in South Sudan at risk from lack of funding

The reintegration programme costs $2,000 per child, providing a dedicated social worker, family tracing and reunification, education, and other vital services to help children rebuild their lives.
January 31, 2020

Plan for social care should break private provider grip on the sector, says NEF

Care users and workers should benefit from any increased funding, rather than the owners of increasingly large private firms, according to a new report from the New Economics Foundation
December 3, 2019

Politicians urged to solve social problems leaving children 'scarred for life’

Organisations say children are being "crowded out"of the discussion of the nation’s future, leaving their needs overlooked and their voices unheard.