Skip to content
  • Subscriptions
  • Download
  • Privacy policy
  • Advertise
  • Contact us
first magazine for councillors
first magazine for councillors
Search
  • home
  • news
  • interview
  • features
    • parliament
  • comment
    • LGA Chairman
    • group leaders
  • councillor
  • elections
  • Search
Search
  • home
  • news
  • interview
  • features
    • parliament
  • comment
    • LGA Chairman
    • group leaders
  • councillor
  • elections
  • Search

Social Care

NAO report on NHS financial stability

11 February, 20191 February, 2019 by The Editorial Team

The crisis in social care, staff shortages and growing waiting lists risk thwarting the ambitions of the NHS’s Long Term Plan, the National Audit Office (NAO) has warned.

Categories newsTags Social Care

Social care concerns

11 February, 20191 February, 2019 by The Editorial Team

While it may feel like 2019 has started where 2018 left off, with Brexit very much the focus of Parliament and the Government, work has continued on a number of important issues such as health and social care.

Categories features, parliamentTags Social Care

Living the lives we want to lead

7 January, 20191 December, 2018 by The Editorial Team

Doing nothing about the funding crisis facing adult social care is no longer an option, according to responses to the LGA’s green paper consultation.

Categories featuresTags Social Care

‘New money needed to fund social care’

17 December, 20181 December, 2018 by The Editorial Team

The Government needs to make the case for national tax and/or social insurance increases to help address the adult social care funding gap, according to responses to the LGA’s green paper.

Categories newsTags Social Care

Additional care cash in Budget

17 December, 20181 December, 2018 by The Editorial Team

Chancellor Philip Hammond announced extra funding for social care, potholes, transport and high streets in his latest Budget statement, alongside business rates changes and a new tax on plastic packaging.

Categories newsTags Finance, Social Care

Most ‘unprepared’ for care costs

17 December, 20181 December, 2018 by The Editorial Team

The overwhelming majority of people have not made any plans for how they will pay for their own care in older age, national public polling commissioned by the LGA has revealed.

Categories newsTags Social Care

Testing the Social Care Green Paper

17 December, 20181 December, 2018 by Imelda Redmond CBE

Social care remains one of the most challenging policy issues of our time.

Categories commentTags Social Care

Carers ‘putting their own health on the line’

5 November, 20181 November, 2018 by The Editorial Team

Rising demand for care and the increasing costs of providing it is putting more pressure on families to look after loved ones, and taking its toll on their health and wellbeing, the LGA and Carers UK are warning.

Categories newsTags Social Care

MPs: ‘increase social care funding’

5 November, 20182 October, 2018 by The Editorial Team

A new survey, carried out by ComRes on behalf of the LGA, has found that the overwhelming majority of MPs (84 per cent) and Peers (76 per cent) believe additional funding should go to councils’ adult social care budgets to help tackle the funding crisis facing services.

Categories newsTags Social Care

Adult services ‘save NHS £60m’

5 November, 20181 October, 2018 by The Editorial Team

Social care has saved the NHS almost £60 million in the past year by reducing the number of delayed transfers of care, according to new analysis by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services.

Categories newsTags Social Care

Information

  • Advertise
  • Contact us
  • Download
  • Privacy policy
  • Subscriptions

Archives

  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018

Who we are

Find out more about the Local Government Association by visiting our website.

www.local.gov.uk

© Local Government Association 2019
Scroll back to top
  • home
  • news
  • interview
  • features
    • parliament
  • comment
    • LGA Chairman
    • group leaders
  • councillor
  • elections
We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. By clicking any link on this page you are giving your consent for us to set cookies.OkNo thanksPrivacy policy
Revoke cookies