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Social Services: Finance

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 72448, tabled on 26 October 2022

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to delay the charging reforms for social care in order to help Local Authorities to manage the costs and pressures of care delivery.

Answered on

24 November 2022

We have listened to the concerns of local government and have taken the difficult decision to delay the planned adult social care charging reforms from October 2023 to October 2025. The funding intended for implementation will be retained in local authority budgets to meet current pressures.