Care and Support Alliance responds to the Spending Review

On behalf of the Care and Support Alliance, Co-Chair, Jackie O’Sullivan, Executive Director of Strategy and Influence at Mencap, said:
“We welcome the Chancellor’s commitment that the Government will ‘back the Fair Pay Agreement’ and as an Alliance we will hold her to her word, when the time comes – which will not be until 2027 we believe.
“We also welcome the additional £4+ billion pledged for adult social care by 2028/9, when Baroness Casey’s Commission is due. However, until
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Chancellor – Don’t ignore social care in the Budget

Dear Chancellor,

As Co-Chairs of the Care and Support Alliance, on behalf of our members, we are writing to you ahead of the upcoming Autumn Budget to raise our concerns about the levels of funding available for the delivery of adult social care in England.

The Care and Support Alliance (CSA), a coalition of over sixty of England’s leading charities, campaigns alongside the millions of older people, disabled people, and their unpaid carers who rely on adult social care. 

 

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The Budget: more money for health, but offers nothing to a social care system in crisis (8 July 2015)

The Government has today reaffirmed its commitment to NHS England’s Five Year Forward view, committing the additional £8 billion a year of NHS funding pledged during the Conservative election campaign. Despite recognition from the Health Secretary that effective social care support relieves pressure on the health service, and growing evidence that budget cuts to the first negatively impact the second, the chronic underfunding of adult social care has not been addressed at all in this Budget.

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