Joint Age UK & CSA response to lack of social care announcements in Budget 2021

Caroline Abrahams, Charity Director at Age UK and Co-Chair of the Care and Support Alliance said:  

“We are deeply disappointed that no immediate or longer term support for social care, so badly battered by the pandemic, was announced in the Budget. Experts have been warning about the sustainability of many smaller care companies for some time and unfortunately the Chancellor spurned this opportunity to give them a helping hand. The result may well be an upsurge in closures over the next few months, putting more stress and strain on older and disabled people & their unpaid carers, who have already endured so much. 

“We and many others will also be seeking assurances that the lack of any mention of longer term care refinancing and  reform does not reflect an intention on the part of this Government to renege on its repeated promise to ‘fix’ care by bringing forward concrete proposals later in the year. “