Barbara Keeley MP, Labour’s Shadow Minister for Mental Health and Social Care, commenting on the LGA Council Leaders report on social care, which says social care services are facing an ‘existential crisis’, said:

“We already know from the CQC report last month that social care is at ‘tipping point’ but this LGA report confirms the shocking truth about the state of social care across the country.

“Elderly and vulnerable people and their families are being let down by the Government’s cuts to social care and the blame for the crisis in care lies squarely at their door.

“We cannot expect councils to shoulder the increasing financial burden of social care, while Whitehall cuts mean they are less and less able to shoulder that burden. It’s time the Government faced its responsibility for creating this crisis in social care, and took action in the Autumn Statement to give councils the funds they need.”