Councils have urged the Government to streamline ‘onerous’ guidance for an adult care fund that has been compared to a copy of War and Peace.
Local government experts have reacted with dismay to the huge list of bureaucratic grant conditions stretching over eight pages that must be met to secure the sector’s £200m share of the £500m Adult Social Care Discharge Fund (ASCDF), which the Government has designed to speed up hospital discharges.
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