Dods Monitoring’s Health consultant Sophie-Rose Feary writes about the funding and policy challenges facing the new Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock.

Ahead of her debate today on ensuring social care in England is adequately funded, Baroness Brinton writes about the issue for PoliticsHome. 

Independent Age respond to the Chair of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee proposals on social care funding.

Alzheimer's Society respond to the Chair of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee proposals on social care funding.

The Chair of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee writes that his Committee and the Health and Social Care Committee have come together to agree proposals on social care funding. He urges Ministers to work together across party, to assess their findings and agree on a solution.

Cuts to council budgets will leave authorities stripped of crucial services to the point that they are unrecognisable, the Conservative leader of the Local Government Association has warned.

Hft, a national charity that supports adults with learning disabilities, has reacted to the publication of a joint report out today (27th June) by the Housing, Communities and Local Government and Health and Social Care Committees on the future of adult social care.

People aged between 40 and 65 should pay a new "Social Care Premium" to help plug a growing funding gap in the social care sector, MPs have said.

Liberal Democrat peer Lord Goddard writes following his parliamentary question this week, on 'the impact on hospices of NHS pay increases and the ability of voluntary hospices to access additional funding'. 

A report by the Richmond Group – a coalition of 14 health and social charities across the UK – has highlighted that significant funding into the NHS, social care and public health is urgently needed if they are to be sustainable.

Statement from Mind's Head of Legal on today’s High Court ruling on Universal Credit

Hft, a national charity that supports adults with learning disabilities, has once again called on the government to provide a sustainable funding solution for the social care sector.

A report by GMB has found that more than 160,000 people are “trapped” in debt because they can’t afford to pay for their social care.

Hft, a national charity that supports adults with learning disabilities, has submitted evidence to a Low Pay Commission consultation on the impact of National Minimum Wage rates by warning that unfunded increases in the National Living Wage are pushing many providers in the sector to the brink.

Dods Monitoring's Daniel Laing writes about the latest developments on social care policy including a call from 21 select committee chairs and 98 MPs writing to the Prime Minster calling for a cross-party commission.

Ministers must produce a plan to save the struggling social care system this year - or risk the sector ending up “on its knees”, a powerful group of MPs has said.

Ahead of his question in the House of Lords on Thursday 3rd May, Lord Blunkett writes for PoliticsHome on improving the experience of passengers requiring assistance when travelling through airports in the UK.

Independent Age are calling on the government to establish a national point of contact for bereavement, with a pathway to ensure everyone who needs it gets good quality, timely support.

With just a year to go until Brexit, a learning disabilities charity is calling for greater clarity around the impact on the social care sector, as it is estimated that the cost of replacing staff could run into hundreds of thousands of pounds for providers.

Council services could suffer decades more austerity under plans to reform local Government funding, a top think tank has said.

Hft, a charity that supports adults with learning disabilities, has expressed its concerns over the lack of any social care provision in the Spring Statement. The charity had previously called on the Chancellor to flesh out its thinking  on the government's planned 'parallel body of work' on adult social care. 

Ahead of his Adjournment debate on the provision of respite care for vulnerable adults on Teesside, Alex Cunningham MP writes that families and vulnerable people deserve better than a menu of weaker provision to give the illusion of choice on respite care. 

The Government has today (Monday 12 March) announced a £40 million investment in the UK Dementia Research Institute (DRI).

Ahead of Philip Hammond's first Spring Statement, Hft, a charity that supports adults with learning disabilities, is calling on the Chancellor to provide clarity on the government's planned "parallel body of work" on the future funding of social care.