London Councils says that coronavirus has led to an unprecedented spike in demand for London boroughs’ welfare support services.

The British Property Federation has revealed the scale of new housing-with-care units required to keep up with future demand.

The Health and Social Care Committee has called for a £7 billion annual increase in social care funding as a starting point for reform.
Warning that doing nothing is ‘no longer an option’, the cross-party group of MPs said that the headline £7 billion figure is a ‘starting point’ and would not address the growing problem of unmet need nor improve access to care, with the full cost of adequate funding likely to run to tens of billions of pounds.

Robert Jenrick has confirmed allocations for individual councils from the £1 billion of additional support announced earlier this month.

The Chancellor has decided to conduct a one-year Spending Review in order to prioritise the response to coronavirus.

The Centre for Policy Studies has set out nine ideas which would deliver £30 billion a year to the Treasury without impacting frontline services.

Stronger collaboration between councils, health bodies and business could fill the strategic planning void if the duty to co-operate is axed.

Skills for Care has found that the adult social care sector in England still needs to fill around 112,000 job vacancies on any given day.

Nearly a million children living in areas that are subject to coronavirus restrictions are set to lose access to free school meals over the holidays.