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Adult Social Care Facing Return To ‘Doom Loop’ The increasing cost of paying staff has led to a fall in the number of people receiving publicly funded long-term care. This is leading to a “doom loop” for adult social care, where there is less help available for those in need, says a damning new report from The King’s Fund. The King’s Fund said its latest research entitled Social Care 360 suggests a “real risk that even more people who need care will have to go without” as providers increase fees to cover increased costs in employing staff, and local authorities cut the number of people they support amid financial strain.
There has been a significant increase in people asking for social care help from local authorities, from 1.8 million new requests in 2015/16 to 2.1 million in 2023/24. Fees paid by councils to independent care providers rose by a third in real terms for older people’s care homes and by 13% for working-age adults care homes. The rise for home care was almost a fifth (18%).
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