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Social care

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  ‘Betrayed’: 21 Hartlepool councillors threaten to quit Labour over care budget
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  Families bid to take over their children’s care home that amassed huge tax debts
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  Reeves appoints higher pay advocate to fight skills shortages as chief economic adviser
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  Britain’s care system promotes modern slavery. A genuinely humane government would reform it

  Andrea Egan

• Parents of children taken in to care should get more help, say experts after Victoria Marten death

• Nurses’ families fear being torn apart in UK immigration crackdown, survey says

• Carer's allowance crisis

  MPs call on welfare bosses to speed up redress over carer’s allowance scandal

• The Guardian view on fostering: reform is welcome, but excess profits must be tackled

• Out of the red, but at what cost? Birmingham council asset sales have left city reeling, say residents

• Government’s top welfare official to step down

• Other lives

  Joy Davies obituary

• UK’s ‘unsung army’ of full-time unpaid carers needs more support, report says

• Carer's allowance crisis

  DWP chief accused of overseeing ‘culture of complacency’ that led to carer’s allowance scandal

• Ministers to crack down on profiteering in care sector and make renewed fostering push

• Families call for inquiry into residential care charity that ran up £1.6m debt

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  Reform councillors say they will not close Lancashire care homes

  Announcement that homes slated for closure will instead receive investment follows months of public outcry
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  Carer's allowance crisis

  MPs criticise behaviour of senior DWP officials over carer’s allowance scandal

  Top DWP civil servant accused of giving out ‘a lot of blancmange’ over department’s response during hearing

• • Halifax care home manager sexually abused children for decades, court hears

  • The Guardian view on long waits for disability benefits: the system should not push people closer to poverty

  • Finding a home is the care leaver’s greatest problem