Social care funding: 'a bleak outlook is getting bleaker'- ADASS

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A squeeze on services for older people in the long-term care system has been revealed by a survey of social care budgets.

Research by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) finds despite resources being transferred from the NHS to local authority-funded social care, directors of adult social services are planning to save another £800 million in the 12 months to April 2014. ADASS president Sandie Keene says: "Gazing into the next two years, without additional investment from that already planned, an already bleak outlook becomes even bleaker." In the three years since the beginning of the current austerity programme, some £2.68 billion savings were made in adult social care. Alth...

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