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

Community Care

Funding shortfall However, this does not cover the extra costs facing authorities from the impact of the employer NICs rise on the providers that they commission, notably in adults’ services. Were all authorities to do so, this would yield about 970m, some of which would be available for adult social care.

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Care home discharge plan risks inappropriate placements and neglects causes of crisis – sector

Community Care

The money is on top of £500m already earmarked for ICBs and councils to clear hospital beds, part of which was allocated last month and which the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said would be well spent on home care, in order to reduce delayed discharges. Risk of inappropriate placements. as of October 2022.

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NHS to get most of £500m winter adult social care funding

Community Care

Social care leaders have criticised the delay, with Association of Directors of Adult Social Services president Sarah McClinton saying that it had left the sector entering a challenging winter with “no certainty, no plan and increasingly little time”. 13,000 people stuck in hospitals.