Social care at breaking point in England after ‘lost decade’ – report

Exclusive: government urged to quickly rectify years of policy failures and underfunding

• ‘Craving contact’: a carer’s view of her clients’ loneliness

Policymakers’ failure to tackle chronically underfunded social care has resulted in a “lost decade” and a system now at breaking point, according to a report.

A team led by Jon Glasby, a professor of health and social care at the University of Birmingham, says that without swift government intervention including urgent funding changes England’s adult social care system could quickly become unsustainable.

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