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• Adult social care in England needs urgent help from ministers, say bosses

  06-11-2024 06:00
  Rising costs and demand are a huge strain on council budgets and services face ‘intolerable pressures’, says AdassEngland’s overstretched and creaking adult social care services need urgent government intervention to stabilise them financially as rising costs and demand play havoc with council budgets, care bosses have warned.The financial challenge facing adult social care continued to be “as bad as it has been in recent history”, the Association of Directors of Ad
  
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• Aged care homes star rating system needs transparency overhaul, ombudsman says

  06-11-2024 00:00
  
  Sue, who lost her husband to Parkinson’s disease and dementia, says the rating system left her ‘angry, utterly powerless and disenfranchised’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet ourbreaking news email,free app ordaily news podcastFamilies who feel misled by the federal government’s star rating system for aged care homes have welcomed the commonwealth ombudsman’s call for it to be overhauled.The rating scheme was introduced to help families make
  
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