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EXCLUSIVE: Family decision making model keeps children out of care

By Lee Peart 15 May 2025

A new charity report highlights how an evidence-based model of family-led decision making can help keep children out of care.

SOCIAL CARE

Social care needs £3.4bn to avoid decline, report finds

By Lee Peart 15 May 2025

Social care will need an additional £3.4bn each year by 2028/29 to avoid services declining, according to The Health Foundation.

SOCIAL CARE

Government 'abdicating responsibility' on social care, say Lib Dems

By Lee Peart 08 May 2025

The Government has been accused of abdicating its responsibility on building a consensus on fixing social care.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Cost of doing nothing on social care must be assessed, say MPs

By Lee Peart 06 May 2025

MPs have warned the Government it must assess the cost of doing nothing on social care and speed up the process of reform.

SOCIAL CARE

Ten-year time frame for social care reform 'deeply disappointing'

By Lee Peart 02 May 2025

News that the first phase of social care reform will take 10 years to be fully delivered has been met with disappointment by sector leaders.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Work progressing on £25m hospital upgrade

By Lee Peart 24 April 2025

Work is progressing on a £25m project to improve, extend and modernise Clacton Hospital.

LGA

Bridging the health inequality gap

By Lee Peart 07 April 2025

Cllr Louise Gittins says that with the gap in healthy life expectancy between the richest and poorest areas at almost 20 years, one of her priorities as chair of the LGA is to look at how it can be...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Review finds 'strong accelerated progress' in council's SEND services

By Lee Peart 04 April 2025

A review has found City of Wolverhampton Council has made ‘strong accelerated progress’ in SEND services.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Care leaders call for bridging fund to mitigate NICs rise impact

By Lee Peart 04 April 2025

Care leaders have called for the creation of a ‘bridging’ fund to mitigate the impact of the rise in National Insurance Contributions (NICs) announced in the Autumn Budget.

SEND