Tag: social care

A National Audit Office (NAO) report has highlighted Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) failures. It has hit hundreds of ...

The Labour Party government has announced plans to reform child social care through introducing new powers for Ofsted and curbing ...

A ground-breaking report from Hourglass, Economic Abuse by Numbers, has exposed the staggering social and economic costs of abuse against ...

Older people are being targeted more than ever before in new statistics and data revealed by Hourglass as part of ...

For the first time, the staggering £16 billion cost of abuse against older people in the UK has been exposed ...

Hourglass, the only UK-wide charity dedicated to calling time on the abuse, harm and exploitation of older people, is raising ...

Nearly all both adult and child care homes that regulators close are profit driven, according to an Oxford University study. ...

The number of carers getting places at universities has fallen dramatically since 2023. Specifically, they've awarded places to a third ...

Britain is in the midst of a social care crisis, thanks to successive Conservative Party governments. Staff shortages, increasing energy ...

A Tory-run Norfolk council has forced a disabled woman living with multiple sclerosis (MS) into a care home against her ...

On 11 October at the Labour Conference, shadow health secretary Wes Streeting spoke of his party's "ten-year plan for a ...

The majority of people think unpaid carers need more money than they currently get. That's the verdict of a new ...

Nearly two million public sector workers are thinking about quitting their jobs, with nearly half saying it's because of pay. ...

The latest error from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has "cheated" people out of money they're entitled to. ...

The BBC whitewashed the Tory hike to national insurance on its Politics Live show. But when the government itself is ...

Three in 10 care workers said that staffing levels are dangerously low, getting worse and negatively affecting care quality, the ...

Boris Johnson faces pressure within the Tory party to re-establish his grip following a chaotic speech to business leaders and ...