Nearly three quarters of local authorities in England have warned it will be very or fairly difficult to set a balanced budget this financial year.
Unison has called on councils to back its campaign for a National Care Service to fix the broken social care system.
Councils are facing a ‘social care blackhole’ in their finances, according to the Liberal Democrats.
The Local Government Association (LGA) has called on the Government to invest in supported housing as part of a submission on preventative care ahead of the Autumn Budget.
The LGA has called for the scrapping of single word CQC ratings for adult social care services.
Some ICBs are seeking to challenge or repurpose the parts of the Better Care Fund earmarked for social care funding, senior Local Government Association (LGA) councillors have been told.
Councils in England face a £6bn funding gap over the next two years, the Local Government Association (LGA) has revealed.
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