One of the biggest barriers to decent social care is the lack of suitably adapted housing. Ministers need to do some more joined-up practice in this area Read more
Pressures on the welfare system increase the likelihood of ever more paternalistic, prescriptive rules about how people spend their personal budgets Read more
The transfer of £300m from the NHS will help care funding in the short term. But robbing Peter to pay Paul is not a sustainable long term solution Read more
The government’s ambition to extend working lives is coming into direct conflict with the extra caring responsibilities imposed on middle-aged people Read more
The Social Care White Paper could have been history in the making if a funding model had been settled on. The problem, as ever, is the lack of political will Read more
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