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Social care and NHS under threat from overseas worker ban, says care boss

By Lee Peart 23 July 2025

A Welsh care home boss has invited First Minister Eluned Morgan to come and see the threat to social care services and the NHS caused by the ban on overseas care workers.

ICB

Council secures £1m investment to support vulnerable children

By Lee Peart 18 July 2025

Havering Council has secured a £1m investment to support vulnerable children.

SOCIAL CARE

Care home workers twice as likely to live in poverty as average worker

By Lee Peart 17 July 2025

Care home workers and their families are twice as likely to live in poverty as the average UK worker, according to new analysis.

SOCIAL CARE

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