division_name: Social Care
motion: <p class="indent" pid="a304.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That this House notes the serious concerns expressed about the social care system, including by the Local Government Association, The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services and the Care Quality Commission; calls on the Government to urgently bring forward promised funding to address the current funding crisis and to put in place a longer-term settlement to ensure that the social care system is sustainable going forward; and further calls on the Government to ensure that the most vulnerable in society are guaranteed the adequate and sustainable care they deserve.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a304.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;commends the work and dedication of those in the social care sector&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a304.1/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;it is no exaggeration to say that our care and support system is in crisis.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a304.1/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;a deeper existential crisis of care&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a304.1/11" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the Government must face up to the reality that social care is in crisis now and provide immediate funding to stabilise the sector.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a304.1/13" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;there is a strong argument that were extra funding to be available&#8230;we should be arguing that it should be going to social care.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a305.2/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Hospitals have struggled to meet the needs of the older age group in a timely way, in both emergency departments and inpatient admissions&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a305.3/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;to sell their home to pay for care&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a306.2/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Ministers must know that their proposals do not deliver sufficient funding to meet the growing number of older and disabled people requiring increasingly complex care and support&#8230;The Council Tax precept will raise least money in areas of greatest need which risks heightening inequality. Councils in deprived areas will have greatest social care needs, yet they will raise less than a third of what more affluent areas do through this approach.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a306.2/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;not believe that the funding for the next couple of years will anywhere near meet the costs of the national living wage and the increasing demand for social care.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a307.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;to bring forward promised funding&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a307.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;to address the current funding crisis&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a307.0/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;A wait of more than two days negates the additional benefit of intermediate care, and seven days is associated with a 10% decline in muscle strength.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a307.0/11" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Delayed discharge is damaging the health of patients and that of the public purse.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a308.5/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;isolated, burnt-out and unable to look after their own health.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a308.5/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;He hadn&#8217;t been shaved, he couldn&#8217;t walk, and his eyes were crusted&#8230;with blepharitis.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a308.5/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;They didn&#8217;t know what they were doing. It seemed like they&#8217;d never cared before. They turned up at five o&#8217;clock in the afternoon to put my husband to bed. Or they turned up at ten, once I&#8217;d already helped him to bed. Absolutely awful.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a308.5/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;You go in there, and you&#8217;ve got no idea about anything, about care. It&#8217;s like going in on the first day at school.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a309.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;a longer-term settlement to ensure that the social care system is sustainable going forward&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a311.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;welcomes the Government&#8217;s Spending Review settlement for health and social care, which ensures that the amount of money available to local authorities for adult social care services will rise significantly across the Parliament, and ensures that up to &#163;3.5 billion more will be available by 2020; commends the work and dedication of those in the social care sector; and further welcomes the introduction by the Government of the social care precept which allows local authorities greater autonomy in making decisions about how they best meet their local communities&#8217; needs for social care.&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a325.3/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;despite increasingly challenging circumstances, much good care is being delivered&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a325.3/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;However, the sustainability of this position is in doubt&#8230;The financial challenges in the NHS have been extensively documented&#8230;there has been evidence of a deterioration in quality&#8230;and some providers&#8230;are struggling to improve their rating beyond &#8216;requires improvement&#8217;.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a332.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We must invest in social care and public health. Our STP shows quite clearly that modern health and care services focus on the whole person&#8212;and that means their mental, physical and social care needs. If we do not invest in social care and prevention, we may not have a sustainable NHS at all.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a335.0/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;much more in some areas than others and raises least in areas with the greatest need for social care.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a341.0/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;spend &#163;850m wisely, not saving &#163;200m badly.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a342.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Cuts have left a trail of destruction and this is affecting those in desperate need of care. Care workers do a vital job looking after the most vulnerable in society. But they&#8217;re not getting the support they need from their employers.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a342.0/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The critical and negative tipping point for the health and care system has been triggered by cuts to social care. It&#8217;s imperative the chancellor takes the opportunity, in the autumn statement, to prioritise investment in social care before the winter.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a344.0/13" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The truth we need to confront is that many local authorities will not be able to meet growing social care needs unless they have new sources of funding.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2016-11-25">25 November</phrase> 2015; Vol. 602, c. 1363.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a344.0/15" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The health service cannot function effectively without good social care.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2016-11-25">25 November</phrase> 2015; Vol. 602, c. 1364.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a346.1/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;threadbare local authority safety net.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a346.1/11" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;a country that works for everyone.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="a351.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="a351.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 200, Noes 279.</p>