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• Shortfall of £2.3bn a year in England’s care homes ‘putting people at risk’

  28-02-2023 17:00
  
  Exclusive: Funding hole directly affects elderly people whose bills are entirely or partly paid for by councils‘Not shoved miles away’: Cumbrian fight to keep care in the communityA £2.3bn-a-year hole has been exposed in England’s elderly care home system, leading to warnings that living standards for hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people could be at risk.A government exercise to define the true cost of care has uncovered a 20% shortfall in council funding needed to
  
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• ‘Not shoved miles away’: Cumbrian fight to keep care in the community

  28-02-2023 17:00
  
  Villagers of Staveley want to turn closed care home into new facility for older people but have run into council roadblockShortfall of £2.3bn a year in England’s care homes ‘putting people at risk’Hospitals are clogged with patients fit for discharge with nowhere to go; care workers are quitting for better pay; almost one in five people aged 70 and over are lonely. Amid reports of dismal care standards, the government’s plan to “fix social care” has been
  
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