The APPG on Rural Services will be discussing the up-coming Green Paper on Adult Social Care early next month. Looks like they will have longer to wait to get their teeth into the actual document. This article tells us:
When Jeremy Hunt finally admitted to MPs on Monday evening that the green paper on […]
This article tells us care should be free for all older people who need it, according to a report by former health ministers.
This would require the current £17bn free personal care funding in England to be more than doubled to £36bn by 2030, according to the Lord Darzi Review of Health and Care […]
This resonates with the emerging information we are collecting for our input to the next rural services APPG. It tells us:
Social care services for vulnerable adults are on the verge of collapse in some areas of England, despite the provision of extra government funding, senior council officials have warned.
The fragile state […]
I said Northamptonshire was the “canary”. This story tells us:
A Conservative-controlled council has called on the government to sort out its “broken” funding system, and claimed it was not going to go down the same path as Northamptonshire council after reports claimed the authority was at risk of going bust.
A fall in […]
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Government’s ‘care Isa’ plan dismissed by Tory health committee chair
I really like Sarah Wollaston and I think her comments here help put this piece of thinking, as potentially part of the solution to the huge challenge (which is bankrupting local authorities) of funding adult social care, back into the THINK AGAIN box. This story tells us…
A senior Tory MP has dismissed proposals […]