Wokingham Borough Council is asking residents to join its calls for better and fairer social care funding from the government.
The authority believes people with learning difficulties, physical disabilities, mental health problems and other care needs will be under threat unless the Government increases funding to the adult care sector properly.
Increases to Employer National Insurance contributions and the National Living Wage that were announced in the Budget will add an £3.5 million per year to the cost of providing adult social care in the borough – but have not come with adequate funding increases.
This, it said, is on top of inflation increases over recent years and has left councils and businesses providing care to those who need it most facing financial crises.
To call the Government’s attention to this issue, Wokingham Borough Council is working together with the Berkshire Care Association (BCA) to ask for fairer funding for adult social care.
You can help by signing the petition on the UK Government and Parliament petitions web page.
