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Issue 202
Councils Call for Delay to Adult Social Care Costs Cap Amid £30bn Funding ‘Black Hole’… With Nine in Ten Councils “Not Prepared”
The County Councils Network (CCN) has called for a delay in the introduction of the cap on adult social care costs, after finding that nine in ten councils are “not well prepared” to implement the changes due to funding uncertainty, demand for services and a “persistent” workforce crisis, warning they will be ‘impossible’ to implement by October next year. The CCN Analysis report, ‘Adult Social Care Charging Reform’, calculated that due to a combination of inflation and demand, reveals the costs of the new cap
on care and more generous means-test have increased by a third – with the total costs of the reforms for older adults now totalling £30bn over the next decade – a figure councils say is unfunded. The costs of the flagship element – the cap on care and extended means test – has risen 34%, from £13.9bn to £18.6bn, researchers found.
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