The crisis facing social care
The long-awaited social care green paper to ‘ensure that the care and support system is sustainable in the long term’ cannot come soon enough. Recent surveys show that as many as 29% of councils are looking to make further cuts to social care due to financial pressures. And it isn’t just the 29% that are feeling the strain. In the 2018-2019 financial year, around half of local authorities went over budget on social care and 37% of councils named social care as…