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Social care

August 2024

  • Polly Toynbee

    Labour is right to ditch the winter fuel allowance – it isn’t ‘robbing’ old people

    Polly Toynbee
    Scrapping the so far universal benefit for millions of pensioners means money can be diverted to those who need it most, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

July 2024

  • Angela Rayner announcing housing reforms in parliament.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Greens say Labour should focus more on building council homes and that new housing plan is flawed – as it happened

  • Debbie cares full-time for her elderly mother, works part-time as a cleaner, and claims carer's allowance of £81.90 a week. But she was one of hundreds of thousands of carers to receive a demand from the Department for Work and Pensions to pay back large sums of money for inadvertently going slightly over the earnings limit. Now Debbie and carers like her are starting to fight back and demand change to the system

    8:50

    Carer's allowance crisis
    I'm under attack and fighting back: the scandal trapping carers - video

  • Photo of someone’s energy bill next to seven pounds in cash

    Up to 2m pensioners will struggle without winter fuel help, say campaigners

  • Conor Thackray, one of the carers who spoke to the Guardian, outside his home.

    The Guardian view on supporting carers: flawed rules around allowances must be fixed

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: Winter fuel payments to be restricted as Reeves says there is £22bn spending shortfall – as it happened

  • Carer's allowance crisis
    ‘DWP threatened to send in bailiffs’: the unpaid carers told to repay benefit

  • Carer's allowance crisis
    Key workers quit jobs to avoid cash penalties for breaching carer’s allowance

  • Carer's allowance crisis
    Millions wasted, lives blighted: time to end the carer’s allowance scandal

  • ‘We got failed by the police’: how veterans of Leeds riots stepped in to defuse disorder

  • Sad last days of Harold Wilson revealed by Cabinet Office archives

  • School worker jailed for sexually abusing autistic boy aged under 16

  • Patients cannot trust CQC’s hospital safety ratings, says Wes Streeting

  • Cost of England’s four biggest killer diseases could hit £86bn by 2050

  • Carer's allowance crisis
    Rachel Reeves must overhaul ‘perverse’ carer’s allowance rule, Martin Lewis says

  • UK parents should check under-18s’ phones for nude photos, says police chief

  • English councils call for further delay to social care costs cap

  • Film honours 41 ‘heroines’ lost in Guatemala children’s home fire

  • Health groups call for social care minimum wage to avert staffing crisis in England

  • The Guardian view on hospices: these special places can’t afford to be hidden

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