ADASS makes urgent call for more cash and new recruits to support social care sector
Social care needs an immediate cash injection and new recruits to support its exhausted workforce…
Shopmobility store faces possible closure due to lack of funds and lockdown pressures
Bracknell Shopmobility, which provides mobility scooters to elderly and disabled people to help them get…
NHS to invest £10m into specialist centres to help rehabilitate sufferers of ‘long COVID’
The NHS has confirmed that an additional £10 million will be invested this year to…
£95 million funding programmes to “breathe new life” into 68 historic English high streets
68 high streets across England are set to benefit from millions in government funding in…
Major trade bodies call on government to fund up to 50% retail rents and service charges
Five leading trade bodies from across the UK are calling on the government to fund…
Republic of Ireland invests €73m in housing adaptations & mobility aids but charity says more needed
The Republic of Ireland Government has confirmed that € (£) will be made available for…
Lockdown powers for local authorities, Nightingales in place until 2021 & business shows to restart
Prime minister Boris Johnson has updated the UK on further changes to the COVID-19 response…
Call for social care funding as councils & providers face escalating costs of £6.6bn by September
Stark new analysis highlights adult social care services providers may face more than £ billion…
Charities collectively criticise government for allowing disabled people to “fall through the cracks”
Ten of the UK’s national disability charities are criticising the government for failing to protect…
£10 million emergency funding to help disabled children access vitally needed equipment
The government has confirmed that an emergency fund of £10 million has been set up…