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• Over 40s to pay more tax under plans to fix UK social care crisis

  26-07-2020 19:07
  
  Exclusive: Matt Hancock advocate of plan to raise tax to cover cost of care in later lifeEveryone over 40 will start contributing towards the cost of care in later life under radical plans being studied by ministers to finally end the crisis in social care, the Guardian can reveal.Under the plan over-40s would have to pay more in tax or national insurance, or be compelled to insure themselves against hefty bills for care when they are older. Continue reading...
  
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• Over-40s in UK to pay more tax under plans to fix social care crisis

  26-07-2020 19:07
  
  Exclusive: Matt Hancock is advocate of plan to raise tax to cover cost of care in later lifeEveryone over 40 would start contributing towards the cost of care in later life under radical plans being studied by ministers to finally end the crisis in social care, the Guardian can reveal.Under the plan over-40s would have to pay more in tax or national insurance, or be compelled to insure themselves against hefty bills for care when they are older. The money raised would then be used to pay for the
  
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• Concern over UK mental health patients discharged at start of lockdown

  26-07-2020 18:30
  
  Nearly 2,500 extra people left mental health units in March, including man now missing in Spain
  Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNearly 2,500 additional patients were discharged from mental health units across the country at the beginning of the Covid-19 lockdown, prompting concern that vulnerable people were released into the community before they were ready.Official data analysed by the leading mental health charity Mind shows 11,829 patients were discharged fr
  
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• Concern for England's mental health patients discharged at start of lockdown

  26-07-2020 18:30
  
  Nearly 2,500 extra people left mental health units in March, including man now missing in Spain
  Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNearly 2,500 additional patients were discharged from mental health units across England at the beginning of the Covid-19 lockdown, prompting concern that vulnerable people were released into the community before they were ready.Official data analysed by the charity Mind showed 11,829 patients were discharged from mental health units in
  
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• Only 19 bereaved families approved for NHS staff coronavirus compensation scheme

  26-07-2020 17:09
  
  At least 540 health and social workers have died in England and Wales during crisisCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageOnly 19 families of NHS and social care workers who died after contracting coronavirus have so far been approved for the £60,000 compensation payment from the government.At least 540 health and social care workers have died in England and Wales during the crisis but, as of 8 July, just 51 claim forms for the taxpayer-funded bereavement scheme
  
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• UK must prioritise levelling up if economy is to get back on its feet

  26-07-2020 15:19
  
  Boris Johnson’s tenure will be coloured by the Covid-19 economic recovery but urgent fixes are needed now A year into the premiership of Boris Johnson, a new kind of normality is beginning to dawn. The roads are getting busier, pubs are open again, and people are slowly returning to the high street as summer rolls on.It would be normal after a year in power for a prime minister to lay it on thick about their achievements so far. But after four months of crisis inflicted by the pandemic, Jo
  
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• The UK must prioritise levelling up if the economy is to get back on its feet

  26-07-2020 15:19
  
  Boris Johnson’s tenure will be coloured by the Covid-19 economic recovery but urgent fixes are needed now A year into the premiership of Boris Johnson, a new kind of normality is beginning to dawn. The roads are getting busier, pubs are open again, and people are slowly returning to the high street as summer rolls on.It would be normal after a year in power for a prime minister to lay it on thick about their achievements in the last 12 months. But after four months of crisis inflicted by t
  
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• Forget levelling up, the UK economy must first drag itself back up on to its feet

  26-07-2020 15:19
  
  Boris Johnson’s tenure will be coloured by the Covid-19 economic recovery but urgent fixes are needed now A year into the premiership of Boris Johnson, a new kind of normality is beginning to dawn. The roads are getting busier, pubs are open again, and people are slowly returning to the high street as summer rolls on.It would be normal after a year in power for a prime minister to lay it on thick about their achievements in the last 12 months. But after four months of crisis inflicted by t
  
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• ‘Happy 100th, Mum’: partying through a care home window

  26-07-2020 08:15
  
  As families were finally allowed to visit care homes, one son drove 350 miles, camping in a car park, for his mother’s birthday
  On Wednesday, the government released guidance for visiting elderly relatives in care homes. Thanks, Matt Hancock, bit of a shame about the timing though, as my care home-dwelling mum had turned 100 just a few days before. But this is not a tale of embittered, enforced absence. We’d got on top of this months ago when we started planning my birthday visit. An
  
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