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    All parties face £4bn social care black hole in England, says IFS
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    All parties face £4bn social care black hole in England, says IFS

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    1. Critical-Engineer81 on

      It’s one topic there there are no solutions to and no one wants to talk about as there are no easy answers. It’s a huge cost to our council tax bill, with many councils already in huge blackholes.

    2. bitofslapandpickle on

      If you are a worker, they will work you into the ground. If you have any net worth, they’re coming for it.

    3. DigbyGibbers on

      This is the thing that has me seriously considering leaving the UK. The solutions to this are not going to be pretty.

    4. _HGCenty on

      Very misleading headline.

      I wish more people would actually read the Public Accounts Committee report from March on social care.

      The issue isn’t funding. Central government could easily find £4bn. It regularly does this for other parts of the Department of Health and Social Care.

      The issue is chronic understaffing and inability to fill vacancies. The reason the money earmarked for social care got spent on other things is the councils cannot spend the money effectively because they simply cannot hire the social care workers. And throwing money at workers just leads to short term filling of vacancies without a long term outcome.

      The solution isn’t just to flood councils with money. The root problems are deeper and are linked to a lack of skills in the country, and thus a huge labour shortfall and reliance on overseas workers.

      There is no long term plan to fix the chronic understaffing. Throwing money at expensive agency staff only provides a short term fix until social care is actually completely overhauled into an industry with a career path and something lucrative for people to want to stay in the job for extended periods of time.