Sky News meets care worker Viviane and service user Jean, who needs 24/7 care but only receives 16.5 hours a week. Despite figures showing demand for adult social care rising, council budgets are shrinking. More here:
Sky News analysis reveals that the social care sector was straining from a shortage of funding and a rising need long before the pandemic revealed a system in crisis.
But some say that spending cuts have meant their jobs have shifted from providing quality of life to just keeping people alive.Since 2016, the number of new requests for support in England have increased 5.6% and costs have gone up by more than a quarter.Real per person spending fell 6.8% on average for the most deprived fifth of councils, compared to a 2.1% rise for the least deprived 20%.The crunch in funding has had a detrimental impact on staff and clients.
"If things continue as they are, I don't know if I can stay working as a carer," she says."It's a job I really enjoy but I have to pay my bills, I have a family to support." "The things that we have to do continue but we've had to stop doing things that enhance people's lives." He says that without more funding, the NHS recovery"will fail" and councils will be forced to shift even more of their limited resources to"propping up" the care sector.All but one council in our analysis now spends a greater share of their money on these services than they did a decade ago.
"The grind to find enough staff feels overwhelming at the moment and there's no real end in sight," he says.The government recently introduced new legislation to reform social care.
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