Care system now 'unsustainable' after £3bn cuts, social services chiefs warn

A total of £2.7 billion less is being spent on care for vulnerable elderly and disabled people across England than before the current round of austerity cuts began – a drop of a fifth in just three years.

The cut in care budgets comes despite hundreds of millions of pounds being diverted from the NHS to prop up the struggling system.

Care chiefs warned they now expect to see many nursing homes and home-care agencies being driven to the brink of bankruptcy because councils can no longer afford to increase what they pay them, even in line with inflation.

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