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LGA responds to Age UK report on self-funders paying for care

Cllr Paulette Hamilton, Vice Chair of the Local Government Association’s Community Wellbeing Board, responded to an Age UK report on people who pay for their own care, including an increase in the number of people who have spent the majority of their savings and assets on care 

“This report is an important and timely reminder of the urgent need for major reform of our social care system.

“People of all ages should be able to live the lives they want to lead and councils are doing all they can to protect social care services, despite the impact of the pandemic exacerbating the serious long-term funding and demand pressures facing adult social care.

“It is in everyone’s interest that people have access to good quality independent financial advice, information on which is provided by councils, so that they are able to manage and make the most of their finances and assets when it comes to paying for care.

“Coronavirus has raised the profile and value of social care in its own right and we have been calling for a sustainable funding settlement for adult social care, since long before the current crisis.

“Part of this solution needs to consider how best to address the recognised need for greater fairness in how care is paid for and funded. We look forward to when the cross-party talks on the future of social care finally begin.”

Notes

The LGA represents more than 330 councils of all types across England. We work on behalf of our members to support, promote and improve local government.

It is councils who had led communities through the COVID-19 crisis. Our recent polling shows that 71 per cent of residents trust their council and two thirds are satisfied with the way their local council runs things in their area. Our new discussion paper - Re-thinking Local - sets out how councils must now be empowered to locally-lead the COVID-19 recovery and tackle the economic, environmental and community challenges that we will face as a result of the pandemic.

A year on from the PM’s pledge that no one would have to sell their home - 14 people are wiped out financially by care bills each day

Original article link: https://www.local.gov.uk/lga-responds-age-uk-report-self-funders-paying-care

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