ICG welcomes winter funding for social care, but stresses reforms also needed
Independent Care Group (ICG) Chair Mike Padgham has welcomed the extra £40m from Government to support social care this winter, but has warned how vital it was that the money reached the front line of delivery, adding that the occasional drip feed of small amounts of funding into social care was no substitute for the […]
Government ‘must end crisis in social care’
The Independent Care Group says the Government must end the crisis in social care, as more than 1.2 million people now go without the care they need. Group Chair Mike Padgham warned that social care had been an issue during the build up to the General Election, but had fallen out of the headlines in […]
