Ministers are looking at allowing increases in council tax to pay for social care. The move comes amid warnings that the system is facing a crisis, with hundreds of care homes on the brink of financial ruin.
In his mother’s words, Thomas Rawnsley was “a little bundle of joy”, but his death last week has prompted an investigation amid safeguarding concerns.
A community based on love, sharing and respect is rocked by a bitter dispute about how to modernise the care it offers the learning disabled residents who share lives with career volunteers.
Charities are warning that cuts to local council spending are leaving more and more 16 and 17-year-old youths homeless.
Victoria Macdonald
Today’s report on the care of people with learning disabilities in England is full of horrible words and phrases like “stakeholder” – a shame, because it’s important.
Care homes that fail to deliver a suitable standard of care could be put in “special measures” in a scheme similar to the one regulating poor-performing NHS Trusts. Fatima Manji reports.
Victoria Macdonald
Too many elderly people are being let down by the agencies meant to be helping them with basic care say their friends and relatives.
A coroner rules that neglect contributed to the deaths of five elderly residents at a care home and says that those responsible should be “ashamed”.
Hidden cameras could be used as part of measures to prevent abuse in care homes under new proposals, but campaigners warn they could create a “Big brother culture”.
Ministers have not fully thought through the implications of their social care reforms, a hard-hitting report finds.
Five disabled people are challenging a plan to change the way their care is funded by the government, arguing it undermines the state’s duty to promote independent living for the disabled.
Thousands more people are likely to be hit with inheritance tax to pay for an extension in state support for elderly care, under new plans by the coalition.
Campaigners for the elderly say the eagerly-awaited announcement of a cap on social care costs could come as a “rude shock”, amid reports that the limit could be set at £75,000.
Jeremy Hunt and ministers giving evidence to a House of Lords committee are warned that proposed NHS and social care reforms are not enough to accommodate the demands of an ageing population.
The Children’s Commissioner uncovers what it claims are thousands of cases of child sexual exploitation in England.