LGA responds to extra social care funding announcement

Thursday, 18 March 2021 16:35

Responding to the Government’s announcement of an extra £341 million in infection control funding and testing for social care and £594 million in hospital discharge funding, Cllr Ian Hudspeth, Chairman of the Local Government Association’s Community Wellbeing Board, said: “Throughout this pandemic, social care services have been on the frontline, doing all they can to protect older and disabled people living in care homes and those receiving care in their own homes....Request free trial