Calls to lift a freeze on new admissions at five Lancashire care homes have been made by opposition councillors.

Blackpool Council has outlined a number of key improvements made to its adult care service four months after inspectors rated ...

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has criticised Norfolk CC for “inconsistencies” in its adult social care provision in its ...

Authorities would also be expected to carry out annual self-assessment, while CQC also plans to increase focus on support for ...

People were potentially put at risk by a lack of effective safeguarding systems in adult social care at York Council, ...

County Hall has been accused of “gaslighting” the public after a senior councillor downplayed a review of adult social care ...

Kent County Council (KCC) has warned it faces "unprecedented pressures" on its adult social care services and is urging the government to provide more support in next month's funding settlement. A new ...

The amount of overdue adult social care debt owed to Cambridgeshire County Council has risen to nearly £24million.

Norfolk County Council has been told to improve its adult social care provision by the Care Quality Commission.

The government has announced its first steps towards tackling the adult social care crisis in England. Health Secretary Wes Streeting said that an independent commission "will work to build a national ...

UK economy shrinks again as October GDP unexpectedly falls 0.1% ...

With a collective funding gap of more than £3bn for 2019/20, local authorities across the UK have been looking at assistive technologies ranging from collaborative robots to voice assistants to ...