Cuts ‘To Hit Care Of Elderly In Poorest Areas’

‘Home care services for the elderly in deprived areas will have to be scrapped except for those in the most desperate need as a result of George Osborne’s funding cuts, the Tory-controlled Local Government Association says today.

The warning comes as official figures show that wealthier, mostly Conservative-run parts of the country, where demand for care services is often lower, will be able to raise their social care budgets by three times as much as the poorest regions by using new powers to increase council tax, announced by the chancellor last week.’

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