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 ...

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have quantified the impacts of a constellation of social factors on ...

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

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

National workload action group also working on resources on caseload management and to help practitioners with case recording ...

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 ...

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 ...

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