Dilnot commission plans to overhaul social care assessments and eligibility risk loading extra bureaucracy on to social workers without delivering on their promise of fairer access to care. (Image: ...

A local authority has been told it needs to make changes to its adult social care services. West Northamptonshire Council has ...

Quarter of social care professionals say initial assessments are carried out through call centres, while there has been an apparent fall in face-to-face assessments, finds Community Care's annual ...

Parents of disabled children are at “breaking point” as one in three have been unable to access the support they need from social care services, a new report has revealed. National disability charity ...

People are waiting too long for adult social care assessments at Leicestershire County Council, an inspection by the health care watchdog has found. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) said the adult ...

A city council must improve residents' access to adult social care and support, inspectors have said. Care Quality Commission ...