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• Stay at home: guidance for households with possible coronavirus (COVID-19) infection

  Thursday, April 9, 2020

  This advice is intended for people with symptoms that may be caused by coronavirus (COVID-19), and do not require hospital treatment, who must remain at home until they are well and those living in households with someone who shows symptoms that may be caused by coronavirus (COVID-19)

• Coronavirus (COVID-19): Latest Advice

  Wednesday, March 11, 2020

  The Government has released detailed advice about who and when people should be self-isolating and what to do if you are showing symptoms, however mild, having recently travelled back from areas/countries with a large outbreak.

• Brexit – What now?

  Friday, February 28, 2020

  Following on from Migration Advice Committee report on post-brexit immigration, the government has now published plans for a new points-based immigration system that will come into force on 1st January 2021, when freedom of movement between the EU and UK comes to an end.

• “A sector out of options” – social care providers resort to offering care to fewer people to manage spiralling costs

  Wednesday, February 5, 2020

  The number of social care providers who say they have been forced to cut support for vulnerable adults has doubled in the last 12 months as a direct result of financial pressures, according to a newly published report.

• Migration Advice Comittee report on post-brexit immigration

  Tuesday, January 28, 2020

  The Migration Advice Comittee (MAC) has today released it's much anticipated independent report on post-brexit immigration. The report responds to the Home Secretary's commission into a points-based system and salary thresholds for immigration and specfically warns that while it's proposals would benefit the UK economy as a whole, it would increase the pressures in social care because of a shortage of low paid workers being able to enter the country

• Health and Care of People with Learning Disabilities

  Thursday, January 23, 2020

  The NHS has released its latest set of statistics showing people with learning disabilities still have a shorter life expectancy than the general population, despite some of the causes of death being premature and preventable.

• Report on Adult Social Care statistics in England

  Thursday, January 16, 2020

  The Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) has today, published its findings from an in-depth review of Adult Social Care statistics in England.
  
  The report, Adult Social Care Statistics in England, concludes that Adult Social Care has not been measured or managed as visibly as hospital care. The OSR believe that the ongoing public and policy debates around social care would be assisted by more comprehensive and better data and would welcome improvements to the existing statistics as well as more fundamental changes, that will require a cross-government commitment to improvements.

• Spending on Social Care to reach record levels in Staffordshire this year

  Friday, January 10, 2020

  Despite falling funding from Government, a record £320m will be spent in 2020 to protect increasing numbers of adults and children in Staffordshire requiring care.

• Nearly 60% of English Local Council’s spending is now focused on Social Care Services.

  Tuesday, November 19, 2019

  The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) have recently released their first annual report: English local government funding: trends and challenges in 2019 and beyond; amongst its findings were that Councils’ spending is increasingly focused on social care services – now 57% of all service budgets.

• Mandatory Learning Disability Training for all Social Care Workers

  Wednesday, November 6, 2019

  The government has confirmed today that every NHS and social care worker will receive mandatory learning disability training relevant to their role.