‘Inconsistent approaches' by councils are placing burdens on social care providers, a not-for-profit organisation has claimed. Anchor Trust's managing director of care services welcomed the Commission for Social Care Inspection's state of social care report, published last week, and improvements and concerns raised within it. ‘As a national provider of services across residential, domiciliary and extra care, we recognise the impact of local authorities' inconsistent approaches to eligibility, funding and commissioning,' she said, before calling for a ‘mature debate into funding for older people's services'. Directors of children's and adult services also welcomed the report for recognising advances made and changes that must happen. The LGA described the report as a ‘wake up call to government', stating it exposed the ‘deeply worrying trends within social care'. The Green Paper Care matters: Transforming the lives of children and young people in care, also released this month was welcomed by the LGA, the Association of Directors of Children's Services and Confed. They agreed Care matters represented a ‘significant opportunity to reduce the gap in life chances faced and outcomes achieved by this key group of vulnerable children'.
