Budget 2017: Social care gets £2bn funding boost


Councils will receive an extra £2bn to fund adult social care over the next three years, the government has announced. Chancellor Philip Hammond said £1bn of the cash will be released in 2017-18 to allow councils to “act now” and commission more social care packages to “relieve pressures on the NHS”. The remaining funding will […]

Source: Budget 2017: Social care gets £2bn funding boost

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