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Government aims to reduce hospital delays with £30m social care funding

By Lee Peart 13 August 2025

A £30m funding boost for local authorities to strengthen community-based social care services and improve hospital discharge processes has been announced by the Welsh Government.

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Lancashire County Council social care support staff balloted in pay grade row

By Liz Wells 04 August 2025

More than 200 social care support officers at Lancashire County Council are being asked to back further strikes in a long-running dispute over extra work and pay grades.

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Calls for higher pay for social care as UK worker numbers continue to fall

By Lee Peart 29 July 2025

The Government has faced calls for higher pay and better conditions for social care workers as the numbers of British recruits has continued to fall.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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'We're not kicking the can,' Streeting defends social care record

By Lee Peart 16 July 2025

Health and social care secretary Wes Streeting has defended the Government’s record on social care while giving evidence to MPs.

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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.

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A cart without a horse

08 July 2025

Leaving social care out of the 10-Year Plan is a significant mistake, writes Martin Green, chief executive of Care England

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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.

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