Tag Archives | cap on care costs

An older couple poring over their finances

Adults, Social work leaders

More people face self-funding care as means-testing thresholds frozen for 14th consecutive year

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Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

Cap on care costs: significant risks around plan to deliver delayed reform by 2025, says watchdog

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Adults, Social work leaders

More people face paying for care as means-test threshold is frozen for 13th year

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Adults, Social work leaders

Care cap pilot councils pause work after government announces two-year delay to reforms

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Jeremy Hunt

Adults, Social work leaders

Hunt announces two-year care cap delay to help councils deliver 200,000 extra care packages

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Adults, Social work leaders

Almost all councils lack funding to meet adult care costs this winter, warn directors

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Rishi Sunak

Adults, Social work leaders

Two-year delay to cap on care costs on cards, amid fears reform will be dropped altogether

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Adults, Social work leaders

‘Things have never been so bad’ for people needing care, carers and staff, warns ADASS president

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Health and social care secretary Steve Barclay

Adults, Social work leaders

Social care secretary back in post as government mulls delay to cap on care costs

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Adults, Social work leaders

Cap on care costs: government reportedly planning delay of a year

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders

‘There is no fat left to trim’: social care leaders warn Jeremy Hunt against further rounds of cuts

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Calendar showing the month October 2023 with a sandtimer and plant

Adults, Social work leaders

Delay cap on care costs by a year to tackle social work recruitment challenge, councils urge DHSC

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Adults, Social work leaders, Workforce

Extra £500m for social care a ‘sticking plaster’, warn sector leaders

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Health and social care secretary Steve Barclay

Adults, Social work leaders

Delay cap on care costs, council heads urge government

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Adults, Social work leaders

Social care waiting lists up 37% in 6 months, finds ADASS

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Houses of Parliament

Adults, Social work leaders

Adult care bereft of cash for current pressures and long-term reforms, warn MPs

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