NHS Digital and the LGA have awarded funding to nine social care digitisation projects to create social care of the future.
Council leaders have urged the government to make the case for national tax rises to secure the long-term future of adult social care services.
ClientEarth has criticised the government’s lack of a joined-up strategy to tackle air pollution, labelling plans as a ‘shambolic and piecemeal mess’.
New figures have revealed that thousands of people in England are still living in tower blocks with unsafe cladding.
Lincolnshire County Council has allocated £300,000 to develop a model of response for people who have fallen.
Two organisations are calling on the government to £200 million in using reading to combat loneliness.
A Bed Every Night initiative has been launched in Greater Manchester to help end the need for rough sleeping in the city-region.
New research has revealed that public sector workers are more likely to suffer from stress than those in the private sector.
The RSPH has ranked 70 of Britain’s major towns and cities by the impact of their high streets on the public’s health and well-being.
More than half of the UK population are underestimating the cost of care home costs, by an average of £12,000 a year.
The overwhelming majority of people have not made any plans for how they will pay for adult social care in older age.
The Alzheimer’s Society has warned that the general public are unaware of the costs of dementia care, with many believing it is free on the NHS.
£3.2 billion a year is required to reverse the impact of public health cuts and ensure that funding is re-allocated according to need.
NHS Digital has revealed that local authorities received 1.8 million new requests for adult social care support in 2017-18.
Local authorities in England will receive a share of a £240 million fund to help local areas ease winter pressures on the NHS.