Look Ahead’s Chief Executive Chris Hampson has joined our Voluntary Organisations Disability Group (VODG) partners in urging the Chancellor to review Budget policies affecting the care sector.
VODG, a membership body representing charities and not-for-profit organisations who support disabled people has written a letter to the Chancellor warning that policies affecting care and support in the current Budget threaten to trigger “a cascade of contract surrenders and service reductions, leaving our most overlooked citizens without essential social care and potentially forcing more people onto NHS waiting lists.”
Chris among other Chief Executives, has signed the letter, which points to policies such as the rise in National Insurance contributions and the lowered thresholds which is expected to drive a minimum 9.4% increase in employer costs and acknowledges these changes as deeply unsustainable for care and support providers.
Asks include: Immediate review, and NHS-style exemptions or local government funding changes
In response to the situation, the letter offers to consult with the Government on solving this problem, and calls for an urgent and immediate review of these measures and for the Government to either:
- Give the sector the same exemptions from these increases as the NHS.
- Or, adjust the Local Government Finance settlement to bridge the funding gap.
To read the letter in full, please click here.
