Most councils are planning savage cuts to adult social care but intend to protect children's services from financial pain, public finance chiefs have found.
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Adult care faces cuts as councils protect children's services
Age Concern and Help the Aged bring together Labour and Tory rivals to discuss care funding
Age Concern and Help the Aged has scored a coup by persuading health secretary Andy Burnham and Tory shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley to share a platform for a care summit.
Adass tells DH: Make personal care part-funded not free
The government should part-fund personal care at home for people with high needs rather than make it free to ensure the policy is affordable for councils, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services has said.
New NHS dementia awareness campaign launched
One in three (32 per cent) people are uncomfortable around people with dementia according to new research.
Skills for Care welcome new strategy to boost training for workers supporting people with autism
Skills for Care have welcomed £500,000 of funding to help frontline social care and health professionals become more aware of the needs of people with autism.
EUROPE PLANS 20 WEEKS MATERNITY LEAVE
The European Parliament's women's rights and gender equality committee has voted through plans to force firms to pay pregnant women 100% of their salary for at least 20 weeks. The introduction would leave British businesses facing the prospect of a crippling £2 billion burden to implement the measures.
