Caring councils
Funding for adult social care, public health and NHS reforms are among the key issues facing councillors and officers.
Social Care
Care services help cut hospital bed delays
Adult social care services have helped save more than half a million bed days over the past two years, by ensuring that people fit to leave hospital, but who need follow-on support, are able to do so safely and on time.
SEND services ‘in crisis’
The Local Government Ombudsman has warned of a “crisis” in provision for children with special education needs and disabilities, with his office upholding nearly nine out of every 10 complaints about these services.
Devolution and social care in Queen’s Speech
There were also new bills proposed on building safety, the environment, serious violence, sentencing, the NHS, health service safety investigations, broadband and trade, while the Domestic Abuse Bill was carried …
£1.8bn for NHS highlights social care funding gap
There cannot be a sustainable health service without a sustainable adult social care system, the LGA has said in response to the recent announcement of a £1.8 billion cash injection for the NHS.
Care in crisis
Brexit is no excuse for the continuing and lengthy delay to publication of the Government’s Green Paper on adult social care, the LGA has warned.
‘Parliamentary logjam’ delaying green paper
The Government’s Social Care Green Paper has been held up by “the parliamentary logjam and a lack of cross-party consensus”, Health and Care Secretary Matt Hancock told the LGA’s annual conference.