When the funding of care home fees was transferred from what is now the benefits agency to LAs, all of us SWs said loud and clear that it would only work if LAs received enough money to do the job properly. They didn't and it is not being done properly.
The theory was good in many ways - to make proper assessments of who needed care, rather than just assessing their income and savings as the critieria.
But no way it could work with insufficient cash. All the predicted problems are happening. It all needs reviewing.
All the LA homes that used to exist round here have closed - they were the ones I chose for my patients because they had good supervision and training.
Private homes can be solely profit- led and it is a disaster.
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