Following Wednesday's budget, North Yorkshire's Independent Care Group has accused the government of being 'deaf' to its calls for support.
The Independent Care Group (ICG) says the lack of any meaningful new investment in social care showed how deaf the Government was to pleas for help.
ICG Chair Mike Padgham said:
“The care of our oldest and most vulnerable has been ignored once again and we will all suffer the consequences.
“There are good things in the budget – the minimum wage, help for the low paid and incentives to industry – but nothing for care.
“What money has been announced for social care today and in recent weeks simply won’t get the sector back on an even keel.
“The Government is investing in health and that is a good thing but spending on the NHS without spending on social care too is counter-productive. The message ‘invest in social care and save the NHS’ simply isn’t getting through.”
The ICG warned the Chancellor that the care of people in their own home and in care and nursing homes is teetering on the edge of survival as we approach winter.
Without investment hundreds of thousands more people will be added to the 1.6m people who currently can’t get care.
Mr Pagham added:
“There is not enough money to pay carers to look after people in their own homes, so that service is starting to crumble and we know that care and nursing homes too are going out of business,”
“What we have heard today will not start to address that and we are bitterly disappointed that another opportunity to rescue social care has been missed.”


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