The plans have sparked particular concern in the social care sector, following the announcement that care worker visas will be scrapped. Here, Yahoo News UK looks at the implications for the social ...

A failure to fix England's social care system is costing the country in financial and human terms, cross-party MPs have warned. Doing nothing to reform social care for older and disabled adults is ...

Tom Montgomery works in higher education. He has conducted research on issues of social care, migration and labour markets that has been funded by the European Commission. The recent launch of pla ...

One big talking point to emerge from the UK government’s recently announced plans to reform the immigration system was the proposal to end recruitment of social care workers from overseas.

Former pensions minister, Baroness Ros Altmann, has called the latest government review into adult social care “deeply depressing”. The new independent commission, announced last week (May 2 ...

The UK government has banned international recruitment for social care roles and announced a dramatic cutback on so-called “low-skilled migration,” declaring that “skilled must mean skilled.” ...

Recommendations from a newly launched commission into social care will be “doomed to failure” unless the true cost of inaction in the sector is set out, MPs have warned. The Health and Social Care ...

Deep reform to adult social care cannot be “kicked down the road any longer”, say health leaders, after the publication of a new report by the UK Parliament’s Health and Social Care Committee. The ...

Adult social care provision in Kent needs to improve, a watchdog has said. In a report published on Friday, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) said it found "stark contrasts" and "health ...

Digitising NHS and social care will cost £21 billion over the next five years, but could be vital for driving down waiting lists, according to new research. A report said the UK will need to ...

Most social workers are expecting cuts to social care funding in their area in 2025-26, a poll has found. This is despite ministers making £3.7bn extra available to local authorities with social care ...