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LGA calls for funding and support for adult social care assurance process

Published on: 01 December 2023
Published by LNB News

LNB News 01/12/2023

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Issue Date: 01 December 2023

Published Date: 01 December 2023

Jurisdiction(s): England and Wales

Article summary

The Local Government Association (LGA) has called for a guarantee of adequate new burdens funding for the new Care Quality Commission (CQC) assurance process for council adult social care services and sufficient advance notice of the assessments. The LGA has said that following interviews with councils involved in pilots of the new assurance process for adult social care, it is apparent that ‘a significant amount of work is required to prepare and execute these assessments’, in which the CQC will give councils an overall rating of either inadequate, requires improvement, good or outstanding. The LGA has also said it is concerned that the ‘implications of underfunding councils may not be taken into account in the ratings given’.

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