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Councils face pressure to cut back on prevention spending
15/07/2025 Overstretched budgets mean that care leaders have been forced to reduce spending on prevention by more than 10% this year, a new ADASS survey has revealed. |
Just one-third of council directors able to invest in preventative services
26/09/2024 Chief executive of ADASS says the need to make over £900m in savings is ‘squeezing' investment in early support for people at home and in the community. |
‘Talk more’ about social care, party leaders told
21/06/2024 Political parties must do more to acknowledge the value of adult social care in the run up to the General Election, sector leaders have argued. |
Political battle over National Care Service
25/04/2024 Competing visions of the future of social care have been set out by Labour and the Conservatives as they prepare for a General Election. |
Council directors call for ministers to ditch 'senseless' immigration crackdown
27/11/2023 An influential group of experts – including council directors – has urged ministers to ditch ‘senseless’ plans to tighten visa requirements for social care and health workers. |
Councils 'not ready' for Met's mental health withdrawal
30/05/2023 Councils are not ready for the consequences of the Metropolitan Police Services’ decision to withdraw from non-emergency mental health callouts, experts warn. |
General election offers chance to 'raise awareness of social care'
27/04/2023 The ‘looming general election’ offers an ideal chance to showcase and raise awareness of social care with the public, says the new president of ADASS. |
Care leaders warn social care system ‘run out of road’
26/04/2023 Body representing social services directors has published ‘roadmap’ for fixing care and says there is a consensus on what needs to be done but a lack of will. |
Hewitt Review calls for social care to be ‘national priority’
04/04/2023 The former health secretary's report on Integrated Care Systems called for further funding and a workforce strategy for social care. |
Bed blocking down by just 3% a month on from £250m plan
22/02/2023 The Government’s £250m initiative to speed up hospital discharges reduced the number of bed blockers by less than 3% in its first month. |
Sector given role in NHS plan
31/01/2023 Local government will join an ‘expert group’ with the community sector and care providers to ‘build adult social care capacity’ as part of a new NHS plan. |
CQC delays new care inspections
21/12/2022 The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has announced it is to delay the introduction of its new adult care assessments. |
Majority of directors warn needs of older and disabled people will not be met this winter
15/11/2022 The majority of councils do not have the funding or staff to meet the care needs of older and disabled people this winter, a new survey has warned today. |
Social care faces 'most challenging year'
19/07/2022 Inflation and a labour market crisis are expected to add to long-term pressures caused by austerity and the COVID-19 pandemic, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services’ (ADASS) spring survey has found. |
ADASS: More than half a million people now waiting for social care
13/05/2022 Over half a million people are waiting for social care and there has been a dramatic increase in the number of hours of home care that could not be delivered. |
Half of councils forced to ration care, survey reveals
14/01/2022 Staff shortages have forced more than of councils in England to ration social care and support, a new survey has revealed. |
Social care White Paper ‘set up to fail’
01/12/2021 The local government sector has praised the ambition of the long-awaited adult social care reform White Paper, but warned it will not succeed without funding to meet current demand. |
Social care services are 'rapidly deteriorating' directors warn
29/11/2021 Social care services are failing to help hundreds of thousands of older and disabled people, a new survey has warned today. |
Directors warn people are waiting longer for care
08/09/2021 Directors of adult care services have faced a spike in demand over the summer months, according to new figures published today. |
Reserves used to meet ‘avalanche of need’
14/07/2021 A third of councils have resorted to using reserves to meet adult social care overspends, an extensive survey has found. |
Queen's Speech: No funding pledge on social care reform
11/05/2021 The Queen’s Speech fell short of including a Social Care Bill and there was no pledge on funding. |
Councils call for public health funding boost
23/03/2021 The Government should increase the public health grant to at least £3.9bn by 2024/25 to reduce health inequalities and protect from future outbreaks, local leaders have argued. |
Social care directors warn of 'exhausted' workforce
14/01/2021 Social care needs an immediate cash injection to support exhausted staff and ensure services don’t collapse, service directors have warned today. |
Social services directors report unprecedented demand for help
23/11/2020 Directors of adult social services have reported a sharp rise in demand in the wake of the pandemic, according to a new survey. |
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ADASS issues stark warning as White Paper faces further delays
17/09/2020 The social care system risks complete breakdown experts have warned as it emerged that the long-awaited White Paper has been delayed again until next year. |
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Immigration plans branded an 'embarrassing shambles'
14/07/2020 The Government’s latest plans for post-Brexit immigration rules have been branded an ‘embarrassing shambles’ after they failed to include care workers. |
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Social care is running out of cash, experts warn
18/06/2020 Social care could run out of money to deal with the fallout of the coronavirus crisis by the end of the summer unless the Government steps in with more cash. |
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Care is 'not out of the woods' as winter comes, says ADASS
11/06/2020 Social care directors have warned they will need significantly more funding, more PPE and more influence on NHS England’s decision making, to help cope with COVID-19 as we head towards winter. |
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Adult care coronavirus costs to reach £6.6bn by autumn
05/06/2020 The majority of the extra financial pressure is being borne by local government, according to new research. |
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Directors warn of 'deep concerns' over care funding
01/06/2020 Adult social care directors have ‘deep concerns’ about the Infection Control Fund which is being rolled out to support care providers. |
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Nine in 10 care directors concerned at winter pressures
27/11/2019 More than 90% of adult care directors are concerned at their ability to cope with winter pressures or provider failure, a survey has found. |
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Report: 580,000 more social workers needed by 2035
05/08/2019 More than 500,000 social care jobs in England will need to be filled by 2035, a new report has predicted. |
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Budget 2018: £800m cash injection for social care
29/10/2018 Social care has been given an £800m boost in today’s Budget after chancellor Philip Hammond said he recognised the ‘immediate pressures’ local authorities were facing. |
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Whitehall demands in-year cuts to improvement programme
19/09/2018 The sector’s ability to respond to crises such as a care provider failure could be hit after Whitehall demanded cuts to a key improvement programme, senior councillors have been warned. |
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Social care funding plea amid NHS crisis
04/01/2018 Social care directors have warned delays to operations and hospital admissions will continue without a long-term sustainable funding solution for their sector. |
