Costs to councils to cover social care for working age and lifelong disabled adults could top £17 billion by 2030, projections have suggested amid a warning the proposed National Care Service risks being an “empty slogan” without greater funding.
While this group makes up around 40% of all adult social care service users, almost two-thirds (63%) of council budgets went towards their care in the year to March, the County Councils Network (CCN) said.
