With the Autumn Budget almost upon us, and senior leaders and MPs gathering for the National Children and Adult Services Conference, there has never been a better time to highlight the mounting fiscal and structural pressures on local authorities and their impact on the provision of adequate social care for adults and children.
Local authorities increasingly face impossible choices. A deepening fiscal crisis, coupled with soaring demand, is prompting local government leaders to warn that council tax will have to rise to cover the escalating costs of adult and children's social care. Add homelessness and the shortage of temporary accommodation, and budgets are pushed to the point of collapse.
