Ministers consider shelving personal liability cap for long-term care costsSenior figures in the social care sector say the idea of ‘pausing’ cost cap, due to be brought in next April, is being discussed urgently in Whitehall
Ministers are considering shelving the promised introduction of a cap on personal liability for the cost of long-term care, after council leaders asked for the funding set aside for it to be used instead to ease the crisis in day-to-day services for elderly and disabled people.
In a letter to the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, and the chancellor, George Osborne, a copy of which has been seen by the Guardian, the newly Conservative-led Local Government Association says: “It would be deeply damaging to press ahead with a costly and ambitious reform programme if the very foundations of the system we are reforming cannot be sustained.” Continue reading... The Guardian
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