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Disabled people’s organisations have welcomed the new prime minister’s pledge that he will face the challenge of fixing the “broken” social care system “head on”, ending decades of “political drift”. Although Andy Burnham has previously described social care charges as an […]
Andy Burnham has delivered a significant blow to attempts to legalise assisted suicide, after he called for the “fixing” of social care and palliative care funding before there was any debate on legalisation. The new prime minister spoke out yesterday (Wednesday) […]
Andy Burnham looks set to make adult social care reform a centrepiece of his agenda, five years after suggesting that a free, personalised National Care Service could be funded through a 10 per cent care levy. Although he did not mention […]
A “milestone” report by the care watchdog has found “systemic weaknesses” in the way some local authorities across England are delivering their adult social care duties. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) said it was most concerned about the variation in performance […]
The former civil servant leading a commission on adult social care in England has told MPs she is examining the impact of scrapping home care charges but also suggested she is unlikely to call for it to be introduced immediately. Baroness […]
An annual report by the care regulator has highlighted how the continuing social care crisis is impacting disabled and older people who need support in their own homes. The Care Quality Commission said in its annual State of Care report that […]
A new film released to celebrate 10 years since activists won a campaign to stop their local council charging for care shows how disabled people can achieve important victories by taking collective action, say campaigners who fought for that success. The […]
A local authority that failed to listen to disabled people who wanted to stay out of residential care has become the first in England to be rated as “inadequate” over its adult social care responsibilities. A report by the Care Quality […]
Disabled people who rely on social care are still struggling to pay their personal assistants (PAs), more than a month after a catastrophic technology failure. The failure struck on 13 July and hit people who use direct payments to arrange council-funded […]
The choices made by the UK state on how the social care system is structured mean that the impact of the pandemic in this area should be “ground zero” for the Covid inquiry’s investigations, disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have argued. Four […]