Campaigners says the “damaging” ban on foreign recruitment will be the final straw for Britain’s beleaguered care homes. There are now 131,000 vacancies across the battered social care ...

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 ...

The government’s recent decision to end the recruitment of care workers from abroad later this year is deeply worrying for the social care sector. This abrupt policy shift will have a profound impact ...

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.” ...

However, as a traditional big family structure largely dissolves and the nuclear family becomes the norm, elder care increasingly relies on social welfare services and specialized facilities.

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 ...

While views differ, few dispute the scale of the challenge facing social care today. Without decisive action, many warn that the consequences for the NHS, care homes, and vulnerable people could ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...