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Adult care funding
Adult social care funding has become a significant issue over recent years,
17 August 2011
New Bill could see looked-after child caseloads rise
The Legal Aid and Sentencing Bill has had its first reading in the House of Commons. Here Ed Mitchell and Dean Woodward look at theimplications for councils
26 July 2011
Child protection to be examined in revised health reforms
The government has promised it will examine how child protection experts in the NHS can be protected from proposed reforms.
15 June 2011
Miliband urges talks with Cameron about care reform
Ed Miliband today called for talks with David Cameron on care funding reform following next month's Dilnot commission report, to avoid a repeat of last year's pre-election hostility on the issue.
07 June 2011
Further health bill delay risks confusion for social workers
The government's health legislation faces being further delayed until the autumn risking confusion for social workers re-registering next year if it puts back the abolition of the General Social Care Council.
26 May 2011
CC Live: Burstow gets tough with PCTs over social care cash
Care services minister Paul Burstow has delivered an ultimatum to primary care trusts that are hogging money intended for social care.
18 May 2011
Elections set to increase social care differences within UK
The regional election results could exacerbate increasing health and social care policy differences between England, Scotland and Wales, a social care policy expert has warned.
06 May 2011
Suffolk outsourcing plans put on hold due to public outcry
Radical privatisation plans which would have seen child protection outsourced for the first time have been put on hold due to immense public opposition in Suffolk. (pic Rod Edwards/Alamy)
05 May 2011
Social work guru Le Grand rejects payment by results
Policy guru Julian Le Grand has said social work is not ready for a bonus culture of payment by outcomes, in an admission that has delighted employee bodies.
11 April 2011
Little divides Labour and SNP on adult social care in Scotland
Labour and the Scottish National Party are locked in a tight battle to win next month's Scottish elections, but on the subject of adult social care they are almost at one.
11 April 2011
Competition spurs social work innovation, says policy guru
Policy guru Julian Le Grand is one of the prime movers behind the GP-style social work practices that trade unions see as a threat to the sector. But employees would be empowered by the system, he tells Kirsty McGregor
08 April 2011
Government launches listening panel to save NHS reforms
Former Royal College of GPs chair Steve Field will head a new panel to consider objections to the NHS reforms as the government tries to win over critics.
06 April 2011
Miliband urges Cameron to ditch 'reckless' NHS overhaul
Labour leader Ed Miliband has urged the government to withdraw its "reckless" NHS reforms amid speculation that ministers will offer concessions to allay concerns.
04 April 2011
Opposition forces DH to reject payment by results scheme
The government has rejected a national payment by results scheme for adult social care after it faced unanimous opposition from sector leaders.
01 April 2011
Proposal to scrap Youth Justice Board voted down by peers
The House of Lords yesterday rejected the scrapping of the Youth Justice Board after peers backed an amendment to the Public Bodies Bill calling for the body to be removed from the so called 'bonfire of the quangos'.
29 March 2011
Voluntary care funding model slammed by Clegg ally
Nick Clegg's right-hand man has expressed scepticism that a voluntary insurance system can solve the funding crisis blighting long-term care.
24 March 2011
Minister denies risk to child protection from duties review
Children's minister Tim Loughton has reassured social workers that he expects "no significant changes" to safeguarding or child protection duties, following the consultation launched by the Department of Communities and Local Government.
18 March 2011
Health reforms risk medicalisation of social care
Among the numerous reforms in social care and health, the prospect of GP-led commissioning consortia is giving colleagues some cause for concern. Radical proposals will see these consortia take over the health commissioning function from primary care trusts, which are to be abolished by April 2013.
17 March 2011
Social care duties cuts will be fought 'tooth and nail'
Government attempts to curb council duties to support disabled people would be fought "tooth and nail", the architect of many of those duties has warned.
16 March 2011
One year on from the Dementia Declaration, what progress has been made?
Community Care's Dementia Declaration campaign called for the condition to be made a political priority. The coalition has done this but the sector is pressing for more progress, finds Mithran Samuel
12 March 2011
