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Author Simon Bottery, Saoirse Mallorie
Categories Adult Social Care, Health and care
Resource type Long read
Publishing body The Kings Fund

Social Care 360

Social Care 360

Little to suggest that social care has turned a corner

2022/23 saw a possible change to a recent trend in publicly funded adult social care. Since 2015/16, more people have been asking for social care support but fewer people have been getting it. But in 2022/23, while more people again asked for support (see indicator 1, requests for support), there was a 2% increase in those who received it compared to 2021/22.

Was this the start of a new trend of more people getting publicly funded social care support?