Like many other people involved with local government, at LGiU we have been talking about social care in increasingly anxious terms for many years.

We saw the Barnet graph of doom back in 2012. We have seen Dilnot come and maybe go. We have seen the faltering implementation of the 2014 Care Act, a slow but steady progress towards more outcome- focused commissioning and steps toward real integration between health and social care in Greater Manchester.