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MPs ask Streeting to 'fully address' social care cost of inaction report

By Lee Peart 16 July 2025

The Health and Social Care Committee has written to health and social care secretary Wes Streeting following the Government’s response to its Adult social care reform: the cost of inaction report.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Call to increase vaccination uptake following measles death

By Lee Peart 15 July 2025

Cllr David Fothergill, chairman of the Local Government Association’s Community Wellbeing Board, said there was an urgent need to address falling immunisation rates after a child died at Alder Hey ...

SOCIAL CARE

Councils social care overspend reaches decade high

By Lee Peart 15 July 2025

Council overspent their adult social care budgets by a decade high of £774m in 2024/25, ADASS has revealed.

NEIGHBOURHOOD HEALTH

BREAKING NEWS: Neighbourhood health services to target deprived communities

By Lee Peart 09 July 2025

Deprived communities with the greatest need are the first to be targeted with the Government’s roll-out of neighbourhood health services.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Government invests £1.5bn in improving early years and family services

By Lee Peart 08 July 2025

The Government has announced a £1.5bn investment in improving early years and family services.

DHSC

Premature deaths twice as likely in deprived areas, analysis finds

By Lee Peart 08 July 2025

People are almost twice as likely to die before the age of 75 in local authority areas with the highest rates of premature deaths than those with the lowest rates, new analysis has found.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Social care and public health leads local authority third-party spend

By Lee Peart 08 July 2025

Social care and public health led local government third-party spend in 2024, new figures have revealed.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Family Hubs to open in every council area

By Lee Peart 07 July 2025

The Government has announced a plan to open 1,000 Sure Start-inspired Family Hubs by 2028 to help deliver support to parents in every local authority area in England.

SOCIAL CARE

Government letting down families on social care, says Dilnot

By Lee Peart 07 July 2025

Professor Andrew Dilnot has accused the Government of ‘letting down generations of families and social care workers’ by not implementing social care reform.

SEND

Council SEND transport spending to soar to £2bn

By Lee Peart 02 July 2025

Council spending on home to school transport for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) is predicted to reach nearly £2bn this year.