Adass urges ministers to justify 'no need for care cuts' claim
The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services is seeking an urgent meeting with government over its claim that councils have no excuse to cut adult care services over the coming years.
07 November 2010
Councils to get hands on most of NHS £1bn for social care
Councils will get their hands on the majority of £1bn in annual NHS funding for social care over the next four years, and will be able to use it to help prop up existing care services, health secretary Andrew Lansley has said.
07 November 2010
Quarter of a million older people set to lose home care
A quarter of a million older people in England could lose access to publicly funded home care next year on the back of the comprehensive spending review. (Picture credit: Alamy)
02 November 2010
What the spending review welfare cuts mean for social care
The £7bn cuts in benefit spending announced in the comprehensive spending review, along with £11bn in welfare cuts from the Budget, will have significant implications for social care, says Gary Vaux.
26 October 2010
Spending review cash for adult care will not be ring-fenced
Funding to compensate adult social care for cuts to council budgets in today's spending review will not be ring-fenced, it has emerged.
20 October 2010
Paul Burstow: Councils have no excuse to cut adult care
Care services minister Paul Burstow has told councils that they have no excuse to cut adult social care despite yesterday's spending review delivering cuts of 28% to councils over the next four years.
21 October 2010
Osborne finds £2bn to help social care weather council cuts
Adult social care will receive an extra £2bn a year by 2014-15 to help the sector withstand massive cuts to council funding announced today by Chancellor George Osborne in the spending review.
20 October 2010
CSR housing cuts risk deepening homelessness and poverty
Homelessness and poverty will rise on the back of cuts to housing funding and benefits announced in this week's comprehensive spending review (CSR), sector leaders have warned.
22 October 2010
Disability groups furious at sickness benefits cuts
Disability campaigners have slammed £2bn cuts to sickness benefits announced today by chancellor George Osborne as part of the comprehensive spending review.
21 October 2010
Welfare changes will increase pressure on children's services
Welfare reforms announced in the comprehensive spending review are likely to create more children in need
22 October 2010
Poorest will be hit hardest by spending cuts, warns IFS
Poorer families and those who benefit most from public services will be hardest hit by chancellor George Osborne's "regressive" spending review, experts have warned. (Picture: Rex)
22 October 2010
Schools 'must share burden of children and families support'
Schools will have take on some of the children and families support work now carried out by children's services, sector experts say.
20 October 2010
£2bn early intervention grant not enough say councils
The government's £2bn grant for early intervention will not be enough to save many early intervention and prevention services from cuts, council leaders have warned. (Picture: Rex)
21 October 2010
Minister reverses Labour pledge to abolish family court fees
Justice minister Jonathan Djanogly has reversed Labour's promise to abolish court fees charged to councils for children's care and supervision proceedings, it was announced today.
21 October 2010
Council budget cuts may cancel out boost for care
Local government budget cuts of 28% threaten to cancel out the extra money found by the government for social care.
20 October 2010
English councils to gain £200m for reorganising staff
Councils in England will receive £200m next year to restructure the local government workforce and bring down long-term labour costs.
20 October 2010
Social workers to pay more for pensions from 2012
Employee contributions to public sector pensions will rise from April 2012, George Osborne confirmed today in the government's comprehensive spending review.
20 October 2010
Osborne cuts DfE's children's services budget by 12%
Funding for vulnerable children and families will be streamlined in a new early intervention grant, but the Department for Education's non-schools budget will be cut by 12% by 2014-15, chancellor George Osborne (pictured) said in today's comprehensive spending review.
Picture: Steve Back/Rex
20 October 2010
Campaigners reject Osborne's child poverty claims
Campaigners have blasted George Osborne's declaration that public spending cuts will have "no measurable impact" on child poverty.
20 October 2010
Expansion in talking therapies announced
Chancellor George Osborne today confirmed the government would expand access to talking therapies and invest in services to divert mentally ill offenders away from the justice system and into treatment.
20 October 2010
