Care Funding News

Some adults with disabilities may be lacking access to essential social care and could be in danger of being left out of a large scale shake-up of services, charities have warned.  Most concern about social care has been directed at pensioners... More »

Wirral residents who use social care services will soon have a local and national voice to air their views thanks to a new organisation. Developed by Wirral Council and Voluntary and Community Action Wirral (VCAW), Healthwatch Wirral will replace th... More »

New research from a major healthcare intelligence provider has revealed that more and more people are funding their own care during their later years. The study, which comes from Laing & Buisson, shows that a record total of 175,000 older reside... More »

The social care system "is careering towards breaking point", according to the chief executive of Bradford and District Age UK. Keith Nathan claimed that the current system lacked funds and warned the situation would only deteriorate unless urgent a... More »

Manchester has been chosen as the location for a Chinese investment company's UK research and care innovation centre. Edward Healthcare, which specialises in providing health and social care for the elderly, will build the Edward Centre for Health C... More »

Older people are part of the generation that set up the welfare state but they are now being betrayed by the direction it is taking, a leading expert has claimed. A lack of funding and a misleading portrayal of "dependants and layabouts" represents ... More »

Nick Clegg has claimed a maximum limit on the amount older people must pay for their long-term care will be brought in before the next general election. The Deputy Prime Minister said an announcement would be made in the near future about the Govern... More »

London Councils is urging the Government to help tackle the care problem in the capital after revealing the funding gap for providing adult social care in the city could amount to £907 million by 2018. The report, called A Case for Sustainable... More »

London Councils is urging the Government to help tackle the care problem in the capital after revealing the funding gap for providing adult social care in the city could amount to £907 million by 2018. The report, called A Case for Sustainable... More »

Only the poorest pensioners should receive winter fuel allowance to help fund a fairer system of elderly state support, a Lib Dem MP has said. Former care minister Paul Burstow said that the allowance should be cut for many pensioners, apart from th... More »