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National standards, local risks
— the geography of local authority funded social care, 2009-10 to 2015-16 | | Author(s) | David Phillips, Polly Simpson |
| Corporate Author | Institute for Fiscal Studies - IFS |
| Publisher | Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, April 2017 |
| Pages | 51 pp |
| Source | https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/9122 |
| Keywords | Services ; Community care ; Needs [elderly] ; Local Authority ; Finance [care] ; Public expenditure cuts ; England. |
| Annotation | A significant number of adults with mental or physical ill-health or disability require support with routine activities of daily living (ADLs) e.g, cooking, cleaning and dressing themselves - or to ensure their safety and welfare (and the safety and welfare of others). That is, they require some form of 'social care'. In this report, the authors examine the extent to which the level of local authority (LA) social care spending per adult varied around England in 2015-16, and the extent to which these spending differences correlated with local demographic and socio-economic characteristics They assess local relative spending needs for adult social care as of the last official assessment in 2013-14. They also consider how social care spending changed between 2009-10 and 2015-16, a 6-year period during which LAs saw an average real-terms cut to their overall budget for local services of 20%. They find that, since 2009-10, cuts have been much larger, on average, in London (18%) and the metropolitan districts (16%) than in the rest of the country. Outside these areas, cuts have been larger in the north of England than the south, on average. This report was funded by the Health Foundation, and also received co-funding from the the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP). (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170505002 B |
| Classmark | I: PA: IK: PE: QC: WN8:5YD: 82 |
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