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• Be thankful for the Brexit deadline: on everything else May procrastinates | Isabel Hardman

  01-07-2018 19:31
  Social care is in crisis – yet the prime minister shows no sense of urgency and seems incapable of deciding how to solve itWhat’s the naughtiest thing Theresa May has done? The prime minister would have us believe that running through fields of wheat was her greatest misdemeanour, but really a far worse habit that she still regularly indulges in is to kick things into the long grass for as long as possible. May’s tendency to procrastinate is most obvious in the way she has hand
  
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• Is national taxation the solution to funding care?

  01-07-2018 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nine in ten (89 per cent) of councils say national taxation must be part of the solution to securing the long-term financial stability of adult social care.
   
  Ahead of its Annual Conference in Birmingham next week, the Local Government Association has polled the leaders and adult social care cabinet members in all 152 councils providing social care in England to gauge their views on the options for funding adult social care and support for the long-term.
   
  The survey – the first
  
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• Tory councils join demand for tax increases to fund social care services

  01-07-2018 08:00
  Vast majority of local authorities in England say taxation is the only viable solution to funding crisisConservative councils across Britain are demanding new tax increases to rescue social care, in the latest sign of the funding crisis in public services.An astonishing nine in every 10 local authorities say that taxation must now be part of the solution in securing the viability of adult social care, according to a comprehensive survey of council leaders and senior figures responsible for care.
  
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