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Extra £200m for social care in council settlement ‘wholly inadequate’, warn sector heads

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Councils will also be allocated a new recovery grant worth 600m and an extra 50m in the broad-based revenue support grant (RSG), some of which the government intends should go on adults services. ” On behalf of charities providing care to disabled people, the Voluntary Organisations Disability Group issued a similar message.

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Social care staff carrying out tasks previously undertaken by NHS, without extra funding, say directors

Community Care

There are also concerns that councils are taking on responsibilities that should fall to the NHS, because of the drive to discharge people from hospital as quickly as possible, which means people are leaving wards with greater needs than previously.