This @TheIFS analysis of the 2025/26 local government finance settlement calculates it’s a 6.4% real terms increase. While substantial, it will still be a stretch to fund extra #socialcare costs, driven especially by the NICs increases for care providers.

@united4allages Yes, it'd be interesting if you had to pay for your own streetlighting because you had a bit too much money or couldn't prove you had a sufficiently high need for light.

Better news for some disabled adults though. The minimum income guarantee - the minimum amount people using #socialcare must be left to live on - has increased with inflation.

If you have Netlix, I can strongly recommend this Ted Danson series set in a retirement community. Warm-hearted and thoughtful about ageing but also very funny in places. And there's a second series on the way. #socialcare

Here’s the most recent pie chart I can find, from @LGAcomms

A colleague used the acronym ‘mLTC’ the other day and when I looked blank explained it stood for ‘multiple long term conditions’. Is the acronym - or even the concept itself - widely used in #socialcare?

@JRFBolton @JamesBullion @CQCProf John, in your opinion is the priority to offer reablement to more people or to offer it for longer?

That sounds similar to previous proposals from @DamianGreen @CPSThinkTank. There are big Qs here (what does a ‘safety net’ mean in reality?) but if the Casey Commission is really to find political consensus it may need to explore these sorts of ideas.

RT @TheKingsFund: For our session on social care at our #KFExplain event, @blimeysimon will be joined by @NCF_Liz & @jessmcparrott. They'll…

Good piece on free personal care in @LBHF. Mainly focuses on older people and so perhaps underplays one key benefit to working age adults: lack of charging. But good to see coverage of alternatives to our current, heavily means tested #socialcare system.

Good, balanced piece here on the French healthcare system. Nice graphs, too.

To be clear, delayed discharges are really bad for people and hospitals. #socialcare has big role in tackling them and wider reform should support to that. Just don’t use the issue as your starting point and, when tackling delays, focus as much on the other causes of delay.