Adult social care provision in Wirral has been rated as "requiring improvement" by the independent regulator. Care Quality ...

The sector employs 1.6 million people in England (about the same as the NHS ). There are many concerns about the sector: ...

Parents’ poor mental health has become the most common factor in children’s social care assessments in England, according to ...

Overhaul of policy and funding is needed now The UK government has announced its approach for social care—establishing yet another commission.1 In its 2024 election manifesto Labour pledged to create ...

The Care Quality Commission (CQC), has rated the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral as requires improvement, in how well they are meeting their responsibilities to ensure people have access to adult ...

Adult social care is teetering on the brink of collapse with a “crisis unfolding in real time”, a damning report warns today.

Reduction in adult social care staff shortages between March and December 2024 follows two years of falling vacancy numbers, ...

Ministers have announced an independent commission on adult social care in England, to inform the creation of a national care service. Elisabeth Mahase looks at what we know The government’s ...

New regulations are set to be progressed to expand the monitoring and inspection of health and social care services and ...

Eventually the conversation turned to social care. With the air of an elder relative saying “I told you so,” Osborne was pious in his assessment of why successive governments – including his own – ...