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Social care

August 2024

  • Clemency Jacques cradles Alex in her arms as she sits on the floor of her living room. Both are smiling.

    Carer's allowance crisis
    Unpaid carer says DWP’s fraud prosecution threat was ‘like blackmail’

  • Venki Ramakrishna

    The Guardian view on ageing: the science of longevity is advancing

  • Jenni Fagan and Samantha Morton photographed at the Union Club in London, August 2024

    ‘The hardest thing is to forgive yourself’: actor Samantha Morton and writer Jenni Fagan on the trauma of growing up in care

  • Children’s names written under brightly coloured hand prints

    The brutal calculation that decides if children in danger get help

  • How to fill the huge gaps in social care provision

  • Your problems, with Anna Tims
    A cheque from Equiniti to pay my late husband’s care home fees got lost in post

  • Number applying to work or study in UK falls by more than a third

  • The shrunken state expects families to fill the voids in health and social care. Woe betide those without children

    Gaby Hinsliff

  • Challenges to deprivation of liberty orders in England soar by a third

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

    Polly Toynbee

30 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

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

29 July 2024

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

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

    Charities warn that means testing as part of Rachel Reeves’s estimated £1.5bn cuts may create ‘heat or eat’ dilemmas
  • 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

    Editorial: Ministers have signalled good intentions towards unpaid carers, and must now follow through
  • Rachel Reeves

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

    Chancellor suggests budget, on 30 October, will involve tax rises and cuts to spending and benefits

28 July 2024

  • Elizabeth Tait and her son Oliver sitting on sofa at their home

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

  • Images of carers

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

  • Montage for of people including Stephen Timms

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

  • Nadsy Qurban standing in a street between two rows of houses

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

27 July 2024

  • Head and shoulders shot of Harold Wilson smoking a pipe

    Sad last days of Harold Wilson revealed by Cabinet Office archives

    Former politicians pay tribute after files show ‘Labour’s most successful leader’ was forced to consider selling legacy to pay for his dementia care
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