HEALTH

Short-changed again

Clive Betts warns that, with little clarity on how much extra money will be spent next year, there is the prospect of social care unravelling unless councils receive more money to fill the existing funding gaps.

Councils will be left with little choice but to impose inflation-busting council tax increases next spring.

In July, the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee, which I chair, produced a report which stated that the failure to properly fund adult social care was the single biggest threat to the financial resilience of local councils.

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