Health Foundation response to Skills for Care report
The Health Foundation responds to Skills for Care's annual State of the Adult Social Care Sector and Workforce in England
Social care Social care is the personal care or support given to children or adults in need or at risk
This care or support can be both practical and emotional – and the individual’s needs might stem from illness, disability, old age or poverty.
Our recent work and content on this topic is listed below.
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Social care workforce crisis
Lucinda Allen and Nihar Shembavnekar look at the dire state of the adult social care workforce in England.
ITT: Cost of digitising the NHS and social care
We are looking to appoint a supplier (or consortium) to develop an estimate of the capital and revenue costs required to achieve digitisation within health and social care.
Going private: what’s happening and is it a bad thing? – with Sarah Neville and Hettie O’Brien
Episode 36. With deep concern over access to NHS care, and policymakers exploring how the independent sector can help get waiting lists down, are we sliding towards a mixed model of health care?
Adult social care funding pressures
Our estimates of the cost of meeting the growing demand for adult social care in England and making some targeted improvements.
REAL Centre
Party conference schedule 2023
The Health Foundation will be holding several fringe events in partnership with other organisations.
Health Foundation response to new social care workforce data
Our response to the publication of Skills for Care data on the social care workforce
Health Foundation response to Fabian Society report on social care
Our response to the publication of the Fabian Society’s report to the Labour Party Support Guaranteed: the roadmap towards a national care service.
Only 2% of carers receive financial support from local authorities
Our analysis on unpaid carers and their access to support revealed the high personal and financial cost shouldered by unpaid carers.
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