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Social care in parts of England is facing ‘total collapse’ without more cash, report warns


SOCIAL care in parts of England is facing a “total collapse” without more funding, a report warns.

Vulnerable adults face losing out on a care home bed or support to continue living in their own home.

 Chancellor Sajid Javid has been called on to pledge a significant sum for social care

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Chancellor Sajid Javid has been called on to pledge a significant sum for social careCredit: Getty Images – Getty

Age UK said there was a “perfect storm” of limited cash, a high turnover of staff and patients needing increasingly complex care.

The charity wants Chancellor Sajid Javid to pledge a significant sum to local authorities in his spending review next week.

The worst-hit local authority has lost 58 per cent of its nursing home beds in the past two years.

And almost a third of areas have seen home care providers cease trading, the Age UK report said.

Spending on social care by local authorities, the NHS and the elderly themselves was £21.7billion in 2017-18 — but this was a real terms £500million cut since 2010-11, Age UK said.

The charity’s Caroline Abrahams said: “Demand is going up but funding and supply are going down.

There are genuine worries that next year we could see a total system collapse in some areas.”

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