Care Home Residents Evicted – 40% Increase

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According to an audit by the Association of Directors of Social Services – at least two thirds of councils, and thousands of elderly residents, have experienced recent home care closures.

“Council chiefs said the sector was becoming “increasingly fragile,” with cuts to social care in recent years fuelling pressures on the NHS, and adding to the burden on families.”

“This latest evidence, from every council in England, lays bare once again the need for, as the Prime Minister put it herself, a proper plan to pay for and provide social care.”

Read the full article here:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/06/11/forty-per-cent-rise-care-home-residents-evicted-closures/

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NHS to get £20bn, but Social Care Still Waits

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Social Care Funding Still Waiting

With the recent announcement that the government is investing £20bn in the NHS (which is obviously good news), the spotlight has again turned to social care funding – or lack of.

“Putting money into the NHS without putting it into social care is like pouring water down a sink with no plug in”

There is an estimated £2.5bn social care funding shortfall, but at least the government green paper on how to fix/fund it is due in the next few weeks.

Read the full article here:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nhs-20-billion-bail-out-theresa-may-social-care-warning-spending-a8403481.html