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The end of formal adult social care
— a provocation by the ILC-UK | | Author(s) | Ben Franklin |
| Corporate Author | Centre for Later Life Funding, International Longevity Centre UK - ILC-UK |
| Publisher | ILC-UK, London, December 2015 |
| Pages | 11 pp |
| Source | http://www.ilcuk.org.uk/images/uploads/publication... |
| Keywords | Services ; Community care ; Informal care ; Social Services Departments ; Finance [care] ; England. |
| Annotation | This "provocation" has been conducted by the ILC-UK Centre for Later Life Funding and supported by Age UK. It provides detailed analysis of the social care funding measures outlined in the Chancellor of the Exchequer's Autumn Spending Review 2015. It finds that although the number of over 80s has risen by 800,000 in the last decade, the numbers accessing care services have fallen by half a million (or by 30%) since 2008/09. The author estimates that some 1.86 million people age 50+ in England (10%) have unmet care needs, an increase of 120,000 people (7%) since 2006/07. Analysis of data from 326 local authorities shows that the councils with the highest concentration of older people and unpaid carers will be the ones that will bring in the least amount of money from the 2% council tax precept. Even if proposals bring £3.5bn into adult social care (most unlikely), this will still only mean that spending on care returns to 2015 levels by the end of the parliament in 2020. Among unintended side effects is that increasing pressures on unpaid carers will have a significant economic impact, preventing more people from continuing in work. The report argues that the UK does not have the required infrastructure to move to a model of care that relies so heavily on family and community support; and that if this were to happen, significant extra investment would be needed. Without greater support, both financial and in terms of more formal care support, greater unpaid caring could risk an erosion in the quality of care provided. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-160205241 P |
| Classmark | I: PA: P6: PF: QC: 82 * |
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