Former health secretary Jeremy Hunt is ‘very worried’ about the funding of social care for the rest of this Parliament, he told delegates at the County Councils’ Network conference.
While welcoming the Government’s move towards resolving social care issues, he said the funding was ‘significantly less than the £7bn uplift that the social care committee said would be needed before the end of the Parliament'.
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