Former care minister Paul Burstow has called for local authorities to ‘step up’ to the challenge of social care funding through open-book accounting – so there is ‘no hiding place for the costs of care’.
Speaking to The MJ at the Liberal Democrat Party conference in Glasgow, Mr Burstow said the wages and professional standards of care workers must be improved, and that greater care was needed in the design of housing for older people.
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