Social care services: funding cuts are biting hard

Social care services: funding cuts are biting hard When we were writing last year’s Social care 360 report we found an appropriate name for a key, v-shaped graph showing the divergence between the number of people requesting social care support from councils and those receiving it. We called it the ‘crocodile’s mouth’ graph, partly because the slightly sinister tone (never smile at a crocodile) reflected a rather worrying trend – more people were asking for support but fewer were receiving it. The King's Fund