£3m funding still available for homelessness charities
Homeless Link has extended the deadline for applications for its COVID-19 Homelessness Response Fund to September 28 2020. The fund,…
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Infection Control Fund extended
The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) has announced plans to extend the Infection Control Fund to help care…
Testing crucial to ensure workers aren’t isolating unnecessarily
UNISON says key workers need a fit-for-purpose testing system to prevent them isolating unnecessarily. The union’s general secretary, Dave Prentis,…
Sector missing opportunities to improve adult care services, Ombudsman reports
The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman is calling for more to be done to help the adult social care…
Pension Credit take-up ‘woefully low’
The failure to deliver Pension Credit to 1.06m older people who are entitled to it is costing the health and…
Labour says government has weeks to put winter care home plan in place
Labour says the government is at risk of repeating past mistakes in care homes. Following reports of the increased spread…
TUC calls for 220,000 adult social care jobs to be created
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) called on the government to create 220,000 jobs in adult social care in order to…
Enfield family left in unsuitable accommodation for three years
A disabled dad and his family were left in mouldy, mouse-infested temporary accommodation, despite Enfield council accepting it was not…
