The attached report has been sent to your local Director of Adult Social Care (ASC) and their senior managers. It has also been sent to the lead elected Cllr member for ASC in your LA as well as the same report going to your local MP or MP’s.

The purpose of this ‘Service Costing Considerations’ document is to promote dialogue and help establish a long overdue narrative around what is actually required to ‘fix social care’.

Care and Support West (CEO David Smallacombe) took part in a Q&A panel session followed by Minister for Care Gillian Keegan’s live stream hosted by Coproduce Care.

This cost pressures report follows a letter sent to Senior Officers in the Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire & Bath and North East Somerset local social and health care area in early December 2021 underlining their Duty of Care to local citizens in relation to the delivery of Social Care.

Please find an overview of contact made with both Thangham Debbonaire and Jacob Rees-Mogg in relation to the social care funding crisis.

CEO of Care and Support West David Smallacombe is interviewed for Bristol TV, Sky, and Virgin Media news about the 2021 1.25% tax reform.

A new health and social care tax will be introduced across the UK to pay for reforms to the care sector and NHS funding in England. CEO of Care and Support West David Smallacombe is interviewed by Claire Cavanagh on BBC Bristol.

Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, the financial pressures faced by social care providers along with their inability to recruit the staff they need were already well recognised and well documented. And then there was Covid-19…

Care and Support West produce a report each year on the Cost Pressures facing the sector every year; these are used in dialogue where we represent the sector.

Our fullest report to date looking at the challenges facing social care. Designed to give a voice to those who work in the sector … it is as relevant today as it was when it was written.