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October 2026
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How much does a care home cost in England?
In England, whether a care home resident pays the full fee or gets help from their council depends on their savings and other capital: above £23,250 they pay in full, and below it the council may help after a means test.
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The Fair Pay Agreement for adult social care in England, explained
The first Fair Pay Agreement for adult social care in England has £500 million for 2028/29, but whether that money reaches care workers depends on council fees that already fall short in home care.
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Money, not need, is shaping England's care market, says Independent Care Group
The Care Quality Commission found care homes in England are consolidating while home care fragments, and Independent Care Group Honorary President Mike Padgham blames fees that do not cover the cost of care.
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Dementia diagnoses in England reach a record 523,081
A record 523,081 people in England now have a formal dementia diagnosis, NHS England figures show, and Alzheimer's Society argues the next test should be how long people wait for one.
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Care body's plan for jobless young people meets its own turnover figures
The Care Association Alliance wants young people not in education, employment or training brought into adult social care in England, but its paper also reports that more than half of care workers under 20 leave within a year.
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Care worker turnover falls to 15.3% where five conditions come together
Care worker turnover falls from 34.3% to 15.3% where employers in England combine pay, hours, training, qualifications and full-time work, Skills for Care says, but its own figures show that package is far from common.
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MHA and UNISON warn a 15-year visa wait risks bringing back agency bills
MHA chief executive Sam Monaghan and UNISON General Secretary Andrea Egan want care workers' wait for settlement to stay at five years, warning that the proposed 15 years risks pushing providers back to costly agency staff.
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Ministers to prepare free personal care in England before Casey reports
Minister for Social Care and Mental Health Alison McGovern says the government will 'prepare the ground now' for a National Care Service for England with free personal care, rather than wait for Baroness Casey's review next summer, but no cost or start date has been set out.
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More than 300 Sunderland care workers back strike over equal pay
Care workers at Sunderland Care and Support have voted overwhelmingly for strike action in an indicative ballot, and GMB is moving to a formal ballot and widening the fight to other council staff.
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No homecare contract studied in England met the Homecare Association's minimum price
Councils in England paid an average £25.37 an hour for state-funded homecare in 2026-27, according to the Homecare Association, against its minimum price of £34.42, and it puts the extra funding needed for sustainable homecare at National Living Wage level at £2.3 billion.
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Unpaid carers leaving work are a staffing risk for care providers, Care England warns
Care England argues that Carers UK's findings on people cutting hours, turning down training and leaving jobs to care for relatives also describe the care workforce, though the survey does not count care staff separately.
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£30-a-month care premium would meet a fifth of National Care Service cost
Pensions consultancy LCP proposes enrolling people in England aged 40 and over in an opt-out care premium, but even on its own sums the scheme would meet only about a fifth of what a full National Care Service would cost.
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Four in ten older people's care homes in England show a rating over five years old
An analysis by the comparison website What Care Costs, reported by The Carer, found 4,438 older people's care homes in England display a CQC rating more than five years old, including 391 last rated Requires Improvement or Inadequate.
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King's Fund wants one national care assessment in England, cost not yet known
The King's Fund wants a single national assessment and national funding for most long-term care in England, but the cost estimates it cites run from £4bn to £18.5bn by 2036, depending on the size of co-payments.
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UK could be up to one million unpaid carers short by 2050, research projects
The UK could have 600,000 too few unpaid carers by 2035 and up to one million too few by 2050, according to research by Public First for Carers Trust, while plans for reform centre on paid care.
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Care workers in England promised a pension, with nobody yet named to pay
Health and Social Care Secretary Yvette Cooper has promised a national collective pension scheme for adult social care workers in England, but has not said when it starts, what it costs or who pays.
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County and rural councils in England expect costs to rise £7bn a year by 2028/29
Rising costs, with adult social care among the main drivers, will leave county and rural councils in England spending £7 billion a year more by 2028/29, the County Councils Network warns, and it wants the Autumn Budget to act.
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Free care plan for 65 and over leaves out working-age disabled adults
Downing Street says what it calls free personal care, under the National Care Service announced by Prime Minister Andy Burnham, will be only for people in England aged 65 and over, and ministers say any change for working-age disabled adults waits on a commission reporting next year.
September 2026
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Proposed 15-year settlement wait threatens the care workers providers struggle to replace
The Homecare Association says its survey shows sponsored staff already leaving, and wants the government to confirm that care workers already living and working in the UK will not face the proposed 15-year route to settlement.
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PM Burnham names how he would pay for free care, not what it covers
Prime Minister Andy Burnham would fund a free national care service in England by changing the state pension triple lock, but what the service would cover has not yet been set out.
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Care complaints to the Ombudsman up 22% as more are fixed early
The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman says complaints and enquiries about adult social care in England rose 22% to 3,938 in 2025-26, but a third of upheld complaints about privately arranged care had already been put right by the provider before it investigated.
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CQC says many larger providers still behind on learning disability training
A year after the Oliver McGowan Code of Practice was published, CQC says progress is uneven and links the gap to avoidable deaths among people with a learning disability.
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Just under half of carers known to councils say they look after themselves
Unpaid carers in touch with social services in England have gone from more than half saying they can look after themselves in 2016-17 to just under half, with stress at the highest level the survey has recorded.
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Norfolk home in special measures could not show agency staff were checked
The Care Quality Commission has rated Kings Court Care Home in Holt inadequate after its first inspection, finding its leaders could not show appropriate checks on the agency workers it relied on.
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Carers UK: 1.1 million people left work in two years to care
Around 1,500 people a day across the UK are giving up paid work to care for a relative or friend, up from more than 600 a day in 2019, and the government has yet to answer on paid carer's leave.
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Around 125 people picked at random will help decide who pays for care
Baroness Louise Casey's Independent Commission on Adult Social Care is writing to random addresses in England to form a public panel that will help decide what care is, who gets it and who pays.
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CMA clears Welltower's 649-home deal after concerns in 30 local areas
The Competition and Markets Authority has cleared Welltower's purchase of 649 UK care home properties after Welltower and Apex Healthcare Properties agreed to sell or hand over homes to resolve competition concerns in 30 local areas of England and Scotland.
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England's dementia tsar will report to the Health Secretary, with no powers set out
The Department of Health and Social Care is recruiting England's first national dementia tsar, but the job description sets out no budget or statutory powers.
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