Nearly 100,000 adults in England denied state-funded social care due to cuts

Government cuts have put so much pressure on the English social care service that it is leaving tens of thousands without the access to long-term care that they would have received 15 years ago. Photograph: pikselstock/Alamy

Nearly 100,000 adults have been denied government-funded social care because of a decade’s worth of spending cuts, a Guardian analysis has revealed, as ministers come under mounting pressure to increase funding for the sector.

The analysis, which is based on a study by the Institute for Government (IfG), shows the number of people in England receiving subsidised care has fallen far more quickly than the country’s disability rate.