In response to critical health-related social needs highlighted by a 2023 West Virginia Department of Health assessment, ...

People are waiting too long for adult social care assessments at Leicestershire County Council, an inspection by the health care watchdog has found. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) said the adult ...

Most social workers believe poverty is not significantly, or at all, considered in social care assessments and plans, a Community Care poll has found. This follows recent Association of Directors of ...

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Over 6,300 people in Scotland are now waiting for the assessment as the Scottish Conservatives say the increase is down to the SNP’s “appalling waste of money” on the National Care Service. A total of ...

There are an estimated 132,800 children living in kinship care in England (Kinship and Centre for Care, 2025). In many such cases, family members step in to care for a child without the involvement of ...

Nearly a quarter of a million people in England were waiting to have their care needs assessed by the end of summer, according to a report which warns of ongoing “significant budgetary challenges” ...

A grandfather fell, wounded his head and was taken to hospital while waiting for a social care assessment to enable him to go into a care home, his family said. Douglas Barton has been the sole carer ...