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Councils fear they will be left with a big hole in their care budgets because three funding pots are due to end next year.

With the Spending Review unlikely to be published this year, councils are calling for an immediate funding strategy for 2020.

Government bodies have applauded Somerset County Council for helping bring national attention to the pressures on social care on tonight's programme.

Reports Studies by Sarah Clarke on April 23, 2019

Local authorities still have a lot of work to do promote independent living among people with learning disabilities, a new report warns.

Councils have said they want to "pool resources" to create an all-purpose "Pennine Lancashire" in a letter to an MP.

Funding Reports by Sarah Clarke on February 25, 2019

Proposals could fail to recognise the demand for social care in areas with a large population of elderly people, the CNN said.