In November 2015 there was an article in the Telegraph which said that the NHS was facing a potential 37,000-strong influx of elderly people because the "cash-strapped care industry "teeters on the brink of collapse." This was attributed to the government cutting council funding by 40%.
On 5 May this year The I reported that "a total of 72 residential care establishments became insolvent in 2015"- this apparently continued the trend of the previous five years. Presumably there were also many other homes which, having seen the writing on the wall, closed in order to avoid insolvency.
This is yet another example of what happens when swingeing cuts are made in one area of the public services which impact on other areas of public services and which are increasingly proving to be very costly, both in economic terms and in terms of their effect on the wellbeing of our society as a whole.
Why aren't more people outraged that the most vulnerable in our society - young people, old people, sick people and disabled people - are not being protected in the manner that would be expected from a supposedly civilised society?
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