Spending review will have 'profound' effect on long-term care - Partnership

Chris Horlick, managing director of care at Partnership, noted that despite local authorities being allocated £2bn of extra funding towards care services in the comprehensive spending review (CSR), this has not been ring-fenced for that purpose. "Local authority spending already accounts for 44% of total public spending on long term care for the elderly (in 2008/09, this accounted for £7.21bn out of the total of £16.17bn). Yet the government has announced that local authorities will have their budgets cut by 28% over the next four years," he said. "This is despite an ever increasing d...