The new Government have announced it will scrap plans to reform the funding of social care which would have seen the introduction of a care cap and a higher support threshold from next year.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said that the action was needed to help tackle a black hole in the public finances it claims was left by the Conservative government and the cancellation of the reforms is expected to save £1.1bn by end of next year.
The announcement has been condemned by older people’s charities while Local Authorities admitted that they would not have been ready to implement the planned changes next October.
The reforms were established by the Care Act 2014 and have been delayed and put back a number of times.
Reeves’s statement seemingly sounds the death knell for a reform agenda which has been rumbling on for 13 years and means that the current system looks to be here to stay for some time.
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