Care Corner Blog

The Queen's Speech confirmed the government's plans for a Bill to reform care for older and disabled people and cap the costs of care. More funding cuts for care But the announcement was overshadowed by a warning from directors of adult social services of further council cuts in funding for care. More than £2.6 billion has already been cut from care budgets since 2010 - some 20% of...

Listening to a recent call to our Independent Age advice line I couldn't help wishing we'd had the chance to advise the family sooner. The caller, a middle aged woman in Norfolk, was extremely worried about how to carry on paying for her mother's nursing home...

The MP for South West Norfolk and education and childcare minister, Liz Truss, has ruffled the feathers yet again of early years and childcare professionals. She claims that 'many nurseries are filled with toddlers running round with no sense of purpose',...

Reviews from consumer feedback website, Good Care Guide, have been selected by the Department of Health to help populate their new care comparison section of the NHS Choices website. NHS Choices and Good Care Guide The initiative, launched on 25th...

When we launched Good Care Guide in February 2012, we had a mixed reception, to put it mildly. For some a 'Trip Adviser style' website for care was long overdue. But others feared it could undermine care businesses. In reality of course the world hasn't...

How do you know which care home would be the best place to move to either for yourself or for an older relative? How do you compare different homes in the area you want to live? At the moment it's with great difficulty. You can read the Care Quality...

On the face of it, today's announcement by the Government of a tax break on childcare is long overdue good news. With the cost of childcare rocketing, parents are struggling to work and pay for childcare. The Government plans to introduce a tax break of...

There have been several reminders recently of Britain's changing demography. We are all aware that we are living longer. But as a House of Lords committee pointed out this week, we are "woefully underprepared" for the challenges of an ageing...

It will come as no surprise to most parents that childcare costs continue to outstrip inflation. Today's publication of Daycare Trust's annual childcare costs survey shows how families are having to make big sacrifices from shrinking budgets to pay for...