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Issue 218
Calls For ‘Rethink’ On Social Care Funding… As Local Authorities “Set to Lose Out Up To £190m”
The Government has been urged to ‘rethink’ its approach to distributing council funding next year, following a warning from The County Councils Network (CNN) that county authorities are set to lose out on hundreds of millions in funding for vital care services. The Treasury’s proposed method of dividing £1.3bn of new funding would see
£600m allocated via the social care grant and £700m set aside for a ‘targeted deprivation-based approach’, however, the CCN said this would see its members lose out on millions of pounds for care services compared to the last two local government settlements, when the ‘vast majority’ of new grant funding was allocated via the social care grant.
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