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Social care

May 2024

  • A woman holds the handles of a wheelchair in which an elderly woman with grey hair in sitting. They are facing away from the camera and neither of their faces are visible.

    Cost of dementia to UK could almost double to £91bn by 2040, study finds

  • Leonie Sheedy in audience

    ‘We’ve waited long enough’: Victorian government to pay $276m for those abused in state care

  • Zainab Contractor and her brother Ismail

    Revealed: thousands of ‘innocent and abandoned’ migrant care workers told to leave UK

  • A woman pushing an older woman in a wheelchair

    Carer's allowance crisis
    Carer’s allowance scandal is not going away – but will DWP reform happen?

  • Carer's allowance crisis
    DWP’s unchecked database leaves tens of thousands of carers at risk of debt

  • Children in danger as NSW child protection reaches crisis point, striking caseworkers say

  • Coroner issues warning over year-round ambulance delays in England

  • Hidden gems from the world of research
    Spending cuts are often false economies that end up costing society dearly

    Torsten Bell

April 2024

  • Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

    Republic of Parenthood
    Fostering is getting a shot of much-needed millennial energy – just ask Kiri Pritchard-McLean

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
  • graphic image showing a school sign, ballot cards and a pencil, an ambulance, a police car, a cyclist, a pothole and a wheelie bin

    From potholes to planning: key issues in England’s 2 May local elections

  • A teenage girl sitting in a dark doorway with light coming from an adjoining room

    Vulnerable teenagers ‘dumped and abandoned’ in hotels by councils in England

  • A caregiver pushes a man in a wheelchair on footpath

    Carer's allowance crisis
    Work and pensions committee chair tells ministers to fix carer’s allowance issues

  • Other lives
    Loїs Williams obituary

  • Carer's allowance crisis
    Sunak under pressure to grant amnesty to unpaid carers fined for rule breaches

  • UK policy denying visas to children of care workers faces legal challenge

  • Carer's allowance crisis
    Hailed as a hero and then sacked: the carer’s allowance whistleblower

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Ex-Post Office executive says she does not recall email telling her Horizon terminals could be remotely accessed – as it happened

  • Children in care – there’s one in every classroom

  • Carer's allowance crisis
    Ministers pledge to publish long-buried study into impact of fines on carers

  • Carer's allowance crisis
    UK government dementia adviser resigns over prosecutions of carers

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