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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jemma Crew

£500 million social care discharge fund ‘not enough on its own’

PA Wire

Groups have dubbed a new £500 million winter discharge fund as insufficient and said the Government must deliver a “much bigger and bolder plan” for social care.

Charities, social care providers and councils welcomed the cash injection but said it will not “touch the sides” of what the struggling sector needs.

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