Social care facing profound problems as reforms are ‘dodged’, think tank warns
The next government has been urged to make social care a priority after years of reform being “consistently dodged or delayed”, a thinktank has said.
In its annual Social Care 360 report, the King’s Fund highlighted a number of trends from the sector.
It said financial eligibility for care continued to tighten, with the threshold for help remaining unchanged since 2010/11.
Local authorities are also facing rising costs, the report said, with
