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Brits Could Lose Inheritance, Family Home Just To Pay 'Catastrophic' Council Care Cost

UK families risk losing inheritances to cover soaring care costs. Councils are owed £343m, forcing many to sell homes.

International Business Times UK · Feb 20, 2025

GPs ask Streeting for ‘assurances’ over employers’ national insurance hike

The Royal College of GPs is seeking assurances that practices will be protected like ‘the rest of the NHS and public sector’.

Evening Standard · Nov 1, 2024

Reeves warned she faces £8.6bn annual bill to save ‘broken’ social care sector

Campaign groups have demanded a multibillion-pound funding settlement to begin fixing social care

The Independent UK · Aug 25, 2024

Care home boss says Matt Hancock has 'no integrity' after WhatsApp messages leaked

This week, messages sent by former Health Secretary Matt Hancock during the coronavirus pandemic have been leaked. Three care home bosses have spoken to The Mirror about their despair

Daily Mirror · Mar 2, 2023

Care home provider says it faces ‘perfect storm’ with free beds but not enough staff

‘We have willingness and passion but not the ability,’ warns care home boss

The Independent UK · Jan 9, 2023

Staffing ‘crisis’ means £200m extra care beds plan won’t work, health bosses warn

Government’s discharge funding could leave patients ‘stranded’ and ‘lost’ in care homes, experts warn

The Independent UK · Jan 9, 2023

Rishi Sunak accused of misleading public over emergency NHS funding

Exclusive: Hospitals and councils have not received £300m promised four months ago to free up beds

The Guardian - UK · Jan 5, 2023

More than quarter of social care staff over 55 may retire in decade, study says

At almost 11%, care worker vacancy rates are twice as high as the national average, according to Skills for Care.

The Independent UK · Oct 10, 2022

Calls for Liz Truss to honour pledge to put £13bn into social care

It comes as Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng said the nation insurance hike will be reversed from November.

The Independent UK · Sep 22, 2022

£500 million social care discharge fund ‘not enough on its own’

Charities, social care providers and councils welcomed the cash injection but said it will not ‘touch the sides’ of what the struggling sector needs.

The Independent UK · Sep 22, 2022