Tag: social care

Former Labour minister Alan Milburn has announced his resignation as chair of the government's Social Mobility Commission. It was accompanied ...

Conservative whip Andrew Griffiths MP learnt a swift lesson today. Don’t joke about social care cuts in front of Jeremy ...

100 deaths a day. That's the figure the BBC won't talk about right now. But it should. Because a new ...

A Conservative minister has been caught on camera saying that taxes shouldn't fund care for older people; and that pension-age ...

The Labour Party just played the Conservatives at their own game. And it won, big time. Searching for answers The Conservative ...

Labour's Barry Gardiner went on the BBC Victoria Derbyshire show on Friday 19 May to discuss the Conservatives' proposed changes ...

On Thursday 18 May, the Conservative Party revealed in its manifesto a pledge that stood out from all the rest. ...

Britain's social care is in meltdown. Underfunded, understaffed, and overburdened. The latest debacle to hit the sector is the alarming ...

Norway is now officially the happiest place on earth. And the UK could learn a thing or two from Nordic countries ...

The Conservative-led Surrey County Council is proposing to hold a referendum on raising council tax by 15%. This is to ...

In the same week MPs were awarded yet another pay rise, the Conservative government announced that residents of England and Wales ...

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn had to spell out exactly how much the Conservative Party cut social care spending as Prime ...

The current state of the NHS and social welfare in general is not great, to say the least. And it's not ...

Prime Minister Theresa May is fond of claiming that her government is pumping £10bn into hospitals over the next five ...

There are currently 1.2 million older people in the UK living with some basic need unmet. That's 48% more than six ...

An online campaign has just transformed the lives of an elderly couple, after it triggered a council U-turn. The couple ...

A senior nursery worker who launched a reign of terror against toddlers in her care received a call from justice ...