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Issue 198
Local Services Face “Breaking Point”… Without Long-Term Funding and ‘Fundamental’ Reform
combination of work-related challenges, which undermine their capacity (and
citing low pay, high pressure and staff burnout as driving care workers out of the profession, or at least leading to high staff turnover. Since many local authorities now no longer providing care themselves, contracting with private providers, they are seeing increasingly high levels of debt, the knock on effect being that care homes are struggling because of a fall in the amount that councils pay towards fees for residents, and at the same time seeing a rise in costs.
ultimately the capacity of the state) to adequately provide care, with providers
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Local services, in particular adult social care is at breaking point with up to half of local authorities facing bankruptcy within the next five years according to two new released manifestoes, one by the County Councils’ Network (CNN) and the other from the local government information unit (LGIU). As the country approaches the general election, the care sector is facing a