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Adult social care in England has never had a clear national settlement. Unlike the NHS or other parts of the welfare state, it developed incrementally rather than through a single moment of design.
Louise Casey’s speech at the Nuffield Trust Summit suggests that the country may be approaching such a moment now. Drawing on the first year of work by the Casey Commission, she described a system shaped by decades of partial reform but never fully aligned...

Skills for Care has launched a new suite of ‘Practical approaches toolkits’.
The practical toolkits are designed to support leaders and commissioners in adult social care to implement effective approaches and improve outcomes, providing clear, actionable insight into tackling some of the sector’s most pressing workforce challenges...

Community minded residents of a Salisbury care home have done their bit for the UK’s biggest mass-action environmental campaign.
A party of volunteer litter pickers from Colten Care’s Braemar Lodge took part in the Great British Spring Clean, organised by the charity Keep Britain Tidy....

An animal lover achieved a wish come true when her care home arranged a trip to a zoo to see meerkats.
Peggy Lill, who lives at Colten Care’s Avon Reach in Mudeford, Dorset, has received a different meerkat ornament from her granddaughter every birthday and Christmas for several years....