The Health and Social Care Committee has called for a £7 billion annual increase in social care funding as a starting point for reform.

Robert Jenrick has confirmed allocations for individual councils from the £1 billion of additional support announced earlier this month.

The Chancellor has decided to conduct a one-year Spending Review in order to prioritise the response to coronavirus.

The Centre for Policy Studies has set out nine ideas which would deliver £30 billion a year to the Treasury without impacting frontline services.

Stronger collaboration between councils, health bodies and business could fill the strategic planning void if the duty to co-operate is axed.

Skills for Care has found that the adult social care sector in England still needs to fill around 112,000 job vacancies on any given day.

Nearly a million children living in areas that are subject to coronavirus restrictions are set to lose access to free school meals over the holidays.

Housing Minister Kelly Tolhurst has announced new funding for supported housing pilots in priority areas.

Family carers are going without crucial services, whilst providing many hours of additional care for loved ones with increasing needs.

An extension to the Energy Price Cap is set to help 11 million households from being overcharged on their energy bills.

Mark Drakeford has announced that Wales will go into a national ‘firebreak’ lockdown from 23 October until 9 November.

The supply of food to care homes, schools, hospitals and prisons is at risk unless the government steps in to support struggling wholesalers.

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