Social work news

• The Guardian view on social care: there can be no more excuses for inaction | Editorial

  05-01-2025 19:30
  Dame Louise Casey must not allow the review she is leading to become another means of deferring change The lack of action, or even a clear direction, on social care reform in England was a disappointment of Labour’s first six months in office. With the recruitment of Dame Louise Casey to lead a review, the government has now made up its mind on how to approach one of the stickiest policy questions. But the proposed timeline is far too extended. By ordering further investigation of the issu
  
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• How the ‘continuing healthcare’ system is failing sick and elderly people | Letters

  05-01-2025 18:17
  
  Readers on the struggles of getting support for loved ones who need care outside hospitalI empathise with Dr Michael Duxbury (Letters, 29 December), but no amount of empathy will increase the chances of his mother, or anyone else’s loved ones, becoming eligible for continuing healthcare (CHC). Excuse the flippant tone, but having worked in the health and social care sector for more than a decade, I had always hoped that a proper integration of health (NHS responsibility) and social care (l
  
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• Labour had plenty of time to ponder social care. Now it has a chance to deliver | Sonia Sodha

  05-01-2025 09:30
  
  Keir Starmer’s government can’t leave the urgent question of how social care will be funded to yet another commissionPoliticians from different parties offer up their ideas at election time, citizens vote for their preferred option, and a government is formed. That is how democracy is supposed to work. Sometimes it feels as if the British political system has never been more distant from this ideal.From the Conservatives, we’ve had years of populism: the dishonest idea that Bre
  
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• Start the rebuilding work, Keir Starmer, and show us you’re different to the last bunch of cowboys | Isabel Hardman

  05-01-2025 08:30
  Setting up yet another commission on social care is an extreme example of Labour putting off the promised urgent repairsIs this really going to be the year that the government “gets things done”? Keir Starmer is branding it as a “year of rebuilding”, returning to work with a series of announcements that he claims show the government is serious about fixing the NHS. Tomorrow, he will unveil an elective recovery plan for the health service, which he hopes will be received a
  
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