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So Just Where Has The Money Set Aside For Social Care Gone?

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keepingquiet Fri 19-Jul-24 09:54:21

The Tories were masters at claiming they had put money into various places and it was their pat answer to everything. They were lying. This is what people chose to ignore. Often it was just money that had been put in years before. What money there was did not make up for the shortfall austerity had removed. It was all a big con.

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pascal30 Fri 19-Jul-24 09:33:13

watch the latest Panorama programme on councils going bankrupt.. it is really eye opening..

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Iam64 Fri 19-Jul-24 09:07:28

What Whitewave said.
Plus have you read or understood anything about austerity over the last 14 years

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Whitewavemark2 Fri 19-Jul-24 06:25:41

I don’t know where to start with the OP so I won’t - except to say that you need to read and understand more about LA funding and legal requirements thereof.🙂

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mae13 Fri 19-Jul-24 05:18:44

Council's are bleating that the expected new cap on social care for 2025 (approx 84,000) cannot now be implemented - apparently the money that was earmarked to action this "has been spent elsewhere", they have confessed.

Where?

Time and again it seems funds for care are treated like a bottomless piggy bank by central and local government depts. that are slipshod at managing budgets. Why is money set aside for elderly, disabled and vulnerable not ring-fenced? Or is this a deliberate policy - because respect for these groups is less than zilch?

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