In March LGiU published Independent Ageing a research report supported by Partnership which looked at the funding of adult residential care. We discovered that self funders falling back on state provision cost councils up to a billion pounds a year: a cost they were largely unaware of.

However, we also argued that this cost was at least in part avoidable and that councils could do more to signpost people to independent financial advice that could help them not to deplete their funds by taking out insurance or using their assets more effectively.