Cash shortfall 'hits care reforms'

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%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%Local government leaders and charities have warned of a £135 million shortfall in funding for social care reforms, which they say could jeopardise changes designed to improve the lives of older people, carers, and the disabled.

As the Care Bill entered the final stages of its passage through Parliament, a group of councils and health and care charities warned that the Government's failure to fund local authorities in full for new responsibilities will force them to divert cash from the Better Care Fund, which is earmarked for new work to "join up" health and social care.

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