![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/tories-accused-of-abandoning-pledge-to-fix-social-care-after-diverting-crucial-cash/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/2_Senior-Man-With-Hands-On-Walking-Frame-With-Care-Worker.jpg&description=The Government announced on Friday that a previously-pledged £600 million funding pot will go to paying existing staff and trying to recruit more to fill gaps ahead of winter The Tories have been accused of abandoning Boris Johnson's pledge to 'fix social care once and for all' after diverting crucial reform cash just to keep the system afloat. Four years after the bold promise no reform of the crumbling social care system has been started. The Government announced on Friday that a previously-pledged £600 million funding pot will go to paying existing staff and trying to recruit more to fill gaps ahead of winter when delayed discharges are expected to put the NHS under huge strain. It comes days after an alliance of more than 60 leading charities begged Rishi Sunak not to backtrack on promised reform, as in much of the country no care support is available for elderly and infirm. Simon Bottery, senior fellow at the leading King's Fund think tank, said: 'The additional £600m over two years for adult social care will offer some relief to hard-pressed local authorities and some of the money should feed through to struggling social care providers and staff, and therefore improve the care people receive. 'Sadly, however, in using money originally earmarked for wider reform help keep afloat the existing system, the government is acknowledging the end of its broader ambitions for social care. 'The need for reform will not go away, though, and if a new government, of whatever colour, wants to ensure people get the social care they need they will need to set out a genuine plan for change.' The Mirror has launched the Fair Care for All campaign demanding genuine reform. In 2019 new premier Boris Johnson pledged to "fix the crisis in social care once and for all". And in his first speech as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak vowed to deliver on the Tories' manifesto promise. However under Mr Sunak any reform planning has been kicked into the long grass, leaving millions of older and di){kind=link}
The Government announced on Friday that a previously-pledged £600 million funding pot will go to paying existing staff and trying to recruit more to fill gaps ahead of winter
The Tories have been accused of abandoning Boris Johnson’s pledge to “fix social care once and for all” after diverting crucial reform cash just to keep the system afloat.
Four years after the bold promise no reform of the crumbling social care system has been started.
The Government announced on Friday that a previously-pledged £600 million funding pot will go to paying existing staff and trying to recruit more to fill gaps ahead of winter when delayed discharges are expected to put the NHS under huge strain.
It comes days after an alliance of more than 60 leading charities begged Rishi Sunak not to backtrack on promised reform, as in much of the country no care support is available for elderly and infirm.