Source · Select Committees · Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
Recommendation 25
25
Deferred
Inaction on adult social care reform creates unsustainable human and financial costs
Conclusion
We support and echo the conclusions of the recent report Adult Social Care Reform by the Health and Social Care committee. As they have said in the summary of their report, successive Governments have not fully considered the human and financial costs of inaction on social care reform, including costs falling on local authorities and their residents. The cost of doing nothing is now unsustainable, and reform is urgently needed. (Conclusion, Paragraph 91)
Government Response Summary
The Government did not address the urgent need for social care reform, instead committing to improving assessment of central government funding distribution and setting out further detail on an updated support framework in the autumn.
Government Response
Deferred
HM Government
Deferred
76. The Government is committed to improving how we assess the need to ensure central government funding is distributed fairly to the places who need it most. The Government recognises the importance of transitional arrangements and as noted above, we invited views in the consultation on a package of transitional arrangements that enable local authorities to plan for these changes. This included views on the approach to financial flexibilities to support local authorities in the context of reform, during the transitional period. The Government will set out further detail on an updated support framework in the autumn.