The long awaited Government proposals to ‘fix’ the care crisis has been announced but is ‘too little too late’ says Disability Rights UK.
“We are concerned that the national conversation is still almost exclusively about Older People, despite a third of people using Social Care being Disabled people of working age, and using two thirds of the overall social care budget. Further, thresholds for Social Care, which are not always based around finances, are so high that around half of all applications to Local Authorities by Disabled people in need of care are turned down
The social care reform proposals do not kick in for another two years. You can read the full article here.
A copy of the policy paper is available on GOV.UK under the title Build Back Better: Our Plan For Health and Social Care
The BBC has produced an article entitled Social care changes at a glance covering what is being proposed and how the changes will be funded. The BBC has previously written about Disabled and vulnerable adults hit by steep rises in the amount they have to pay towards their care.
