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• Social care backlash grows after MPs vote through tax plan

  08-09-2021 22:09
  
  Care sector leaders become increasingly concerned about limited resources set out in proposalsBoris Johnson has won the backing of MPs for his controversial health and social care plan, amid a growing backlash from experts and professionals who warned it will fail to fix the urgent crisis in the care system.Despite the concerns of some Conservative MPs about breaching their manifesto commitment not to increase national insurance contributions (NICs), a motion approving the £12bn a year pac
  
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• Boris Johnson wins Commons vote on national insurance hike

  08-09-2021 20:17
  
  MPs back government plan to increase tax to pay for NHS and social care Plans to hike national insurance contributions (NICs) to fund £12bn for the NHS and social care have been passed by the Commons, with Boris Johnson spared a mass Tory rebellion.After springing a vote on MPs with just 24 hours’ notice in a bid to stymie a backlash from his own backbenchers, the government won comfortably. Continue reading...
  
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• Small businesses are collateral damage in social care tax hike | Nils Pratley

  08-09-2021 19:55
  
  The 1.25-point rise in tax on dividend income will hit sole traders and the self-employedThe lower-profile element in the government’s tax hike to raise cash for health and social care was the 1.25% percentage point increase in tax on dividend income. It didn’t generate the same attention as the core revenue-raising “social care levy” on national insurance contributions because, first, the sums are smaller, and, second, because wealthy individuals enjoying dividend income
  
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• Keir Starmer orders MPs to vote against government’s social care plan

  08-09-2021 19:25
  
  Frustration within Labour over lack of firmer plan to counter Boris Johnson’s proposalsKeir Starmer ordered MPs to vote against the government’s national insurance rise and social care plan, amid jitters from some MPs as to how the party can counter a Conservative party prepared to raise taxes to fund the NHS.On Wednesday, Labour confirmed it would publish its own fully-costed social care plan which could include additional funds raised on income from financial assets or property &nd
  
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• Health and care levy won’t fix social care and is not funded fairly, says Labour’s Rachel Reeves – as it happened

  08-09-2021 19:06
  
  Shadow chancellor says social care tax ‘is a broken promise, it is unfair, and it is a tax on jobs’. This live blog is closed – for coronavirus updates, please follow our Covid live blogNHS could ‘swallow up’ all the money raised by new tax rise, says IFSStarmer lambasts PM for breaking manifesto pledges on social careBoris Johnson stakes reputation on £12bn fix for health and social care‘Boris plays catch-up’: what the papers say about Johnson&rsq
  
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• Keir Starmer may be against the Tories’ tax hike, but Labour needs ideas of its own | Larry Elliott

  08-09-2021 18:47
  
  Public attitudes to spending have shifted since austerity, yet the opposition seems to be championing low taxesFor decades, many on the left have hankered for the social democratic political settlement of other European countries. Britain, it has been said, should ditch Thatcherism once and for all, and embrace higher taxes as the means of improving public services.Now it has happened. As a result of the new health and social care levy, taxation will rise to its highest sustained level on record
  
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• Manifesto pledges are broken to ‘fix’ social care: Politics Weekly podcast

  08-09-2021 18:19
  
  Heather Stewart and Zoe Williams discuss the prime minister’s announcementof a £12bn healthcare levy to be introduced through a rise in national insurance contributions. Plus, Libby Brooks and Peter Walker look at the state of Green party politics in the UK Continue reading...
  
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• Nearly 300,000 on adult social care ‘waiting lists’ in England

  08-09-2021 17:38
  
  Delays starkly demonstrate funding and staffing pressures in sector, say local authority care chiefsToday’s politics news – live updatesNearly 300,000 people are on local authority “waiting lists” for adult social care services in England because of funding pressures and delays in assessments from social workers, according to council care chiefs.They also revealed that a chronic shortage of care workers meant more than one in 10 people assessed as needing care in their ow
  
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• Social care funding in England: your questions answered

  08-09-2021 17:03
  
  The demand for council-funded care will soon exceed 2 million people, with £23bn spent in 2019/20How many people need social care?Nearly 1.4 million people aged 65 and over requested support from councils in England in 2019/20. Add to that 560,000 working-age adults and a steady rate of increase and the demand will soon exceed 2 million people. Continue reading...
  
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• National Association of Care Catering unveils shortlist of inspirational individuals for awards

  08-09-2021 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  The National Association of Care Catering (NACC) has unveiled the inspirational individuals and teams shortlisted for the NACC Awards 2021.The prestigious awards recognise and celebrate the innovation, excellence and dedication within care catering and the unsung heroes across the sector that go above and beyond every day for the benefit of their residents, service users, customers and colleagues – from care homes to community services, including Meals on Wheels and Luncheon Clubs. Th
  
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• UK care homes say funding shake-up threatens their viability

  08-09-2021 15:52
  
  Operators fear plunge in revenue from private buyers could trigger collapse in servicesToday’s politics news – live updatesThe viability of care homes is under threat from the government’s plan to allow more privately funded customers to buy care at cheaper rates currently only available to councils, operators have warned.The government announced on Tuesday that it is using legislation to let private buyers – who often pay hundreds of pounds a week more in care fees than
  
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• MPs debate health and social care tax rise after Starmer accuses Johnson of ‘hammering workers’ – UK politics live

  08-09-2021 15:12
  
  MPs debate tax rise after Keir Starmer atacks Boris Johnson’s tax plans during PMQsNHS could ‘swallow up’ all the money raised by new tax rise, says IFSStarmer lambasts PM for breaking manifesto pledges on social careBoris Johnson stakes reputation on £12bn fix for health and social care‘Boris plays catch-up’: what the papers say about Johnson’s tax planCoronavirus updates – liveCraig Mackinlay (Con) asks what he should say to people who will only
  
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• NHS could ‘swallow up’ all the money raised by new tax rise, says IFS

  08-09-2021 14:43
  
  Thinktank says little could be left for social care because NHS spending plans are almost always topped upThe NHS could “swallow up” all the extra £12bn a year the controversial hike in national insurance will raise, leaving no money to improve social care, Boris Johnson has been warned.The Institute for Fiscal Studies’ prediction comes amid warnings from NHS leaders that the government’s planned boost to the service’s budget “falls far short of what is
  
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• Starmer lambasts Johnson for breaking manifesto pledges on social care

  08-09-2021 14:29
  
  Boisterous atmosphere at first prime minister’s questions since Commons’ return to all-physical sittingsToday’s politics news – live updatesKeir Starmer has lambasted Boris Johnson over what he called a series of broken promises over social care and the NHS, with the prime minister declining to say his new policy would prevent people having to sell their homes to pay for care, or clear the NHS backlog.The first prime minister’s questions since the Commons returned t
  
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• PMQs: Starmer accuses Johnson of ‘hammering workers’ before debate on tax rise for health and social care – live

  08-09-2021 13:25
  
  Labour leader says PM cannot even say that tax rise will clear the NHS backlog during PMQsBoris Johnson stakes reputation on £12bn fix for health and social care‘Boris plays catch-up’: what the papers say about Johnson’s tax planCoronavirus updates – liveCraig Mackinlay (Con) asks what he should say to people who will only get tepid heat from green-friendly radiators, and who will lose out from other zero-carbon measures.Johnson says Mackinlay’s constituents s
  
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• UK politics: NHS could ‘permanently swallow’ all £12bn raised for social care – live

  08-09-2021 12:52
  
  Analysis by Institute for Fiscal Studies says NHS overspending will leave ‘no or very little’ money from tax hike for social careBoris Johnson stakes reputation on £12bn fix for health and social care‘Boris plays catch-up’: what the papers say about Johnson’s tax planCoronavirus updates – liveAt 7pm tonight MPs will vote on the principle of the new £12m levy for health and social care. They are not voting on legislation, but instead on a ways and m
  
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• ‘Cobalt Corbyn’: Tory press gives Boris Johnson rough ride over tax rise

  08-09-2021 11:29
  
  PM’s social care policy has ‘sounded death knell for Conservatism’ and is his biggest gamble, papers sayBoris Johnson faced a slew of sceptical headlines from the rightwing press on Wednesday morning, as his former employers at the Telegraph claimed he was shifting the Tories “away from sound money, low taxes, free markets, and individualism”.The prime minister appeared to have quelled a rebellion on his backbenches, for the time being, over the hike to national ins
  
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• UK small businesses: share your thoughts on the health and social care levy

  08-09-2021 11:27
  
  We would like to hear from SME owners on how they feel about paying for the new healthcare levyA £12bn healthcare levy announced by Boris Johnson as part of health and social care reforms, is expected to be ushered in by MPs on Wednesday. Breaking an explicit manifesto promise, the levy will mean a 1.25 percentage point increase in national insurance contributions. Employers and directors of small companies will also pay an additional 1.25% tax on dividends for employees earning about the
  
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• UK politics: Javid claims Tories are still ‘party of low taxation’ after £12bn health levy – live

  08-09-2021 10:37
  
  Increase to NI takes tax burden to highest peacetime level as MPs prepare to vote on Boris Johnson’s announcementBoris Johnson stakes reputation on £12bn fix for health and social careGood morning. Boris Johnson takes a close interest in how his government is reported by the national newspapers and, having announced a £12bn tax rise that clearly breaks a manifesto promise, he might have expected a mauling. Although the coverage is certainly critical, it could have been worse. B
  
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• Suddenly, my 94-year-old great aunt must leave her care home

  08-09-2021 09:30
  
  It’s being closed for refurbishment and now we have to search for a new place in a pandemicMy 94-year-old great-aunt, along with other residents, has been given six weeks to leave her care home, the Peele in Wythenshawe, which is closing for refurbishment. She has no short-term memory and has made friends at the Peele after a challenging move from her own home. We had spent a lot of time looking for a suitable home and now have to find somewhere else, at short notice, in the middle of a pa
  
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• Higher NI contributions are not the way to address the UK’s social care crisis | Andrew Fisher

  08-09-2021 07:00
  
  The Tories are more concerned with protecting property and inheritance for wealthy people than actually fixing the problemAndrew Fisher was the Labour party’s executive director of policy from 2016 to 2019
  For the Conservative right, nothing is as sacred as protecting the wealth of those who are already wealthy. This is why Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid have broken their party’s 2019 manifesto commitment not to raise national insurance (NI), and will introduce a “h
  
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