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Social care

July 2024

  • Keir Starmer holds a news conference after his first cabinet meeting on 6 July 2024.

    The Observer view on the new Labour government: a fine start but still a mountain to climb

  • Jonathan Clucas, headteacher at Layton Primary School, Blackpool.

    Five key workers on how Labour can fix Britain, from the NHS to prisons

  • Headshot of Michael Holden, author, June 2024

    For years I was my parents’ reluctant carer. Then I was told I was making things worse

  • A smiling Ed Davey

    Lib Dems to push for cross-party talks on tackling social care

  • New prime minister will face a range of urgent priorities from day one

  • ‘A lot of stereotypes to break’: Children’s Inquiry musical explores life in care in Britain

  • I saw my mum forced to fight and cajole as a carer. When will politicians end the conspiracy of silence on adult social care?

    Rory Kinnear
  • Migrant nurse wins legal boost in unfair dismissal claim against UK firm

June 2024

  • Babies in a hospital nursery. In 2022 the fertility rate across England and Wales fell to 1.49 children per woman.

    The baby bust: how Britain’s falling birthrate is creating alarm in the economy

  • Minreet Kaur in a white blouse and red trousers (right) with her mother in a floral sleeveless blouse

    Life as an unpaid carer in the UK: ‘I feel unseen and unheard – and politicians don’t offer much’

  • a woman hands a plate of food to a smiling 80 -year old woman at the dinner table

    Unpaid UK carers ‘face financial hit that can last decades’

  • Ninety year old woman with hand on radiator looking out of window. UK. Coronavirus, self isolation, social distancing, quarantine... concept<br>E963NT Ninety year old woman with hand on radiator looking out of window. UK. Coronavirus, self isolation, social distancing, quarantine... concept

    Labour needs to think again on care home beds

  • The falling birthrate threatens a disaster so costly no politician dares think about it

    Sonia Sodha
  • Heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua wants to open care home for retired boxers

  • Tax giveaways, rent caps and childcare: what the manifestos would mean for your finances

  • Labour’s NHS and social care plans will save money, says Angela Rayner

  • NHS will need extra £38bn a year by 2030, thinktank warns

  • Life with long Covid
    ‘A 30-second walk would exhaust me beyond reason’: Natacha’s life with long Covid

  • Labour would use part of NHS budget to buy beds in care homes

  • Places in council-run children’s homes in England fall by third as private firms take over

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