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Issue 186
Successive Government Inaction Leaves Social Care Struggling... …As Social Care Requests Hit “Record High”
The next government has been urged to make social care a priority after years of reform being “consistently dodged or delayed”, according to a newly released report. In its annual social care report, titled Social Care 360, published by The King's Fund, it was stated that adult social care support continues to stagnate follow-
ing a lack of action to reform the sector by successive governments. Social Care 360 highlights that adult requests for social care have hit a record high of two million and that across the sector, the key measures all point towards a social care system that is under intense pressure.
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