Category: Social Care
For 14 years, the Conservative government has shown no interest in the lives of young people in difficulty James Munby’s heartfelt plea for suitable accommodation for children at serious risk to themselves or others (“Judges are sick of locking up children who just need help”), alongside the report that the NHS Child and Adolescent Mental […]
UK election manifestos: views of those in education, health and social care The Guardian
The human cost of social care fees Channel 4 News
Sir James Munby says measure reflects government’s ‘shocking moral failure’ to help those with complex needs • Britain’s judges are sick of locking up vulnerable children who just need help. Why has nothing been done? Vulnerable children with complex needs are being locked away in unregulated placements and are being “gravely damaged by the state” […]
Lack of provision for complex cases is a moral failure by our ‘civilised’ country, says a former president of the high court’s family division The BBC recently reported extensively on the rising and excessive use of deprivation of liberty (DoL) orders on vulnerable children. What was described is shocking and the stories they reported are […]
Free social care for all should be a Labour policy The Guardian
Keir Starmer says Rishi Sunak had ‘back against the wall’ and lied in debate bbc.co.uk
Liberal Democrats pledge free personal care BBC
The Guardian view on social care: the Lib Dems have a plan. It should be welcomed | Editorial The Guardian
Lib Dems pledge to ‘end hospital crisis’ with free personal care – as Tories tout migration cap Sky News