People are waiting too long for adult social care assessments at Leicestershire County Council, an inspection by the health ...

Over 6,300 people in Scotland are now waiting for the assessment as the Scottish Conservatives say the increase is down to the SNP’s “appalling waste of money” on the National Care Service. A total of ...

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Nearly a quarter of a million people in England were waiting to have their care needs assessed by the end of summer, according to a report which warns of ongoing “significant budgetary challenges” ...

Social care should be funded through a new tax with the option for people to pay a pension-style “care supplement”, a report ...

Five years ago, we embarked on a journey into children’s health and social care assessments, to gain insight into the processes children and families must go through as local authorities and other ...

There are an estimated 132,800 children living in kinship care in England (Kinship and Centre for Care, 2025). In many such cases, family members step in to care for a child without the involvement of ...

Law Commission issues recommendations to simplify 'unnecessarily complex' legal framework for disabled children ...

The report found residents were also “waiting much longer than they expected” for financial assessments. The CQC said there ...

Social risks (food insecurity, housing instability, financial strain, health insurance type) are associated with patients’ decisions to avoid/delay health care and increased utilization of the ...

Research has found that almost one in five parents of children with disabilities are facing a wait of more than 12 months to receive their legal entitlement of a social worker assessment. Among those ...

Older people in England, including with dementia, are at risk of not getting enough help to live independent, dignified lives because of inequalities with assessments for social services, according to ...