• Government has brought adult social care in England ‘to its knees’, MPs say

    Government has brought adult social care in England ‘to its knees’, MPs say
    Damning report on long-term care system blames uneven funding and a lack of a plan for failureThe government has brought adult social care in England “to its knees” with years of uneven funding and a “woefully insufficient plan” to fill thousands of staff vacancies, MPs have said in a damning report on a system that provides long-term care for 835,000 people.The public accounts committee said “chronic underfunding, rising waiting lists and patchwork funding” h

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