From April 2014, people receiving NHS Continuing Healthcare and families of children receiving continuing care, will have the right to ask for a personal health budget.
On 9 October Norman Lamb announced that from October 2014 this right will be strengthened and will become a right to have a personal health budget. The full text of the announcement is available on the NHS England Personal Health Budgets website.
Today, 12 October 2026, The King’s Fund has published ‘Equal access: a fairer system of social care support for England’, setting out its recommendations on how to reform the social care sector. It has also shared new analysis which reveals significant local...
The King’s Fund has today, 25 September 2026, published ‘Direct Payments: Creating the conditions for choice and control’. This new research explores why Direct Payment uptake varies so widely across England, and what local authorities can do to improve it. Think...
The Prime Minister has established social care as a key government priority. It is encouraging to hear a Prime Minister acknowledge the importance of reform, describing previous failure to reform as “a major dereliction of public duty”, calling for “more problem...
Today, 29 July 2026, the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) and Think Local Act Personal (TLAP) have responded to the launch of the Big Conversation on Care, led by Baroness Casey’s independent commission on adult social care, and the Prime Minister’s three...
