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“This invaluable report provides further evidence of the immediate difficulties councils and care providers are facing in delivering care and support. Demand for services is increasing, budgets are not stretching as far, unpaid carers are facing further strains, and recruitment and retention remain huge challenges."

This insightful report on what social care directors are facing on the ground and what actions they want to see makes essential reading for government.

“Councils are doing all they can to support care providers in their areas but pressures clearly remain, with our own commissioned research suggesting that providers face extra costs of £6.6 billion by the end of September this year."

"This report is further compelling evidence of the irrefutable crisis in adult social care funding which cannot be ignored."

“This important annual report is further compelling evidence of the irrefutable crisis in adult social care funding which cannot be ignored and rightly highlights the efforts of councils in continuing to do all they can to help people live the lives they want to lead."

“It is great to see councils continue to take the lead to tackle the spread of COVID-19. More than 200 councils have now launched their own locally-supported contact tracing arrangements, which continue to reach the vast majority of complex cases assigned to them."

Councils work hard in their communities to help long term smokers quit and so are fully supportive of the Government’s smokefree 2030 ambitions.

This settlement continues to leave local public health teams with limited resources to maintain essential services

Drug services need greater funding certainty from government if they are to deliver the life changing benefits we know they can.

Councils have made good progress but more needs to be done especially to reduce the gap between the most and least deprived.