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Third of Care Providers Considered Market Exit Amid Financial Pressures Adult social care providers have urged the Government to work with them to put the sector on a sustainable footing in the face of unfunded rising costs and deepening workforce challenges. This comes as a new report, launched at the Care England conference earlier this month, revealed that one third of adult social care providers, including half of smaller organisations, have considered exiting the market in the past 12 months. The Sector Pulse Check report, a piece of independent research commissioned by national learning disability charity Hft and Care England, the largest and most diverse representative body for independent providers of adult social
care in England, illustrates the unique challenges facing the sector following the pandemic, cost of living crisis and decades of under-investment by central Government. Based on a representative survey of care providers in England, the report describes how cost pressures, including sky-high utility bills – rising by as much as 500% for some providers – and increasing, unfunded workforce pay resulted in 82% of providers being in deficit or facing a decrease in their surplus in 2022.
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