![]() More than a sixth of the population, or 11 million Britons, are over the age of 65 by 2043, it will be a quarter. Adult social care supports the disabled, the chronically ill and the elderly: it is that last, ever expanding category that presents the greatest challenge. In October, the County Councils Network, representing 36 mostly Tory administrations, warned of care providers abandoning contracts, chronic staff shortages and an impending £3.7 billion in additional costs as a result of inflation. Social care budgets, outsourced and administered through local authorities, collapsed during George Osborne’s austerity decade. ![]() Forty per cent of them are waiting for a care plan – either in their own home or at a residential home – and another 24 per cent intermediary care. R ecent NHS figures suggest around 14,000 people in hospital no longer need to be there. ![]()
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