Lucinda Allen

Nov 11, 2024 | themj.co.uk | Lucinda Allen |Paul Marinko |Georgina Walton |Hiba Sameen

Last month saw the new Government set out its first Budget. There was much to welcome, including a substantial downpayment on the investment needed to make the NHS fit for the future. But adult social care for older and disabled people – another essential public service which has suffered years of underfunding – did not fare so well.

Mar 24, 2023 | themj.co.uk | Lucinda Allen

We are shortly expecting the Government and NHS England to publish a long-term workforce plan for the NHS. While its much-anticipated arrival will be welcomed by many, there is a glaring absence of an equivalent for adult social care in England, which has waited nearly 14 years since its last national workforce plan. Years of political neglect and underfunding by national government have reduced our social care system to a threadbare safety net. Thousands go without care they need.