Charities are scathing about social care £650m payout

Charities have been scathing about the Budget announcement of an extra £650 million being made available for social care with some stating that 2019 “was shaping up to be truly perilous” before this extra money was found. Age UK said this payout continues the pattern whereby year on year, governments allow social care to teeter on the brink, only to bail it out with an emergency hand out €“ just enough to prevent total national collapse but no more. It added that this approach gives neither staff nor providers much encouragement to stay and so they continue to drift away, storing up even greater problems for the