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"Local government needs to be part of decision-making to avoid a scenario where the introduction of an FPA jeopardises the supply of care and sustainability of council finances.” 

"Councils are committed to supporting disabled adults and older people to live independently, safely, and with dignity in their homes."

"The rise in the number requests for high-cost care for younger working age people is a message to us all, that social care is about everyone and effects all of us, directly or indirectly."

"Local councils are committed to delivering care and support to all those who have cause to draw on it but cannot do this alone.

"Growth in the care workforce is a positive reflection of recent progress in improving capacity, stability and quality in the sector. However, urgent action is still needed to tackle long-standing serious recruitment and retention challenges, particularly around fair pay, access to training, and employment rights for all care workers.

“The care workforce plays a fundamental and valued role in supporting people who draw on social care to live the independent lives they want to lead."

"A chronically underfunded social care system not only adds pressure to other public services, but more importantly, has a profound impact on people who draw on care, resulting in widespread unmet need."

This survey starkly shows councils are caught in the impossible position of having to choose between meeting people’s complex care needs and supporting other people’s wellbeing to prevent their needs from escalating. In this situation, councils cannot deliver the Government’s ambition to shift care from hospital to community without sustainable funding for adult social care.

The LGA responds to a Health and Social Care Select Committee report on the cost of inaction on reform of adult social care.

The LGA responds to the publication of the Terms of Reference for the Casey Commission on the future of adult social care.