• Councils rationing adult social care through ‘subjective’ eligibility judgments, finds think-tank

    Councils rationing adult social care through ‘subjective’ eligibility judgments, finds think-tank
    Councils are rationing adult social care through “subjective” eligibility judgments, a think-tank has concluded.
    The Institute for Government (IFG) said that a long-term decline in the number of people receiving adult social care, amid increases in requests for support, was most likely down to rationing, not the use of strengths-based practice to make people more independent and less in need of care.
    The IFG made the claim in a report analysing the performance of adult social care, p

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