Of respondents choosing 7 priority issues from our 20 suggested issues, this first chart shows the number of people who thought a given issue was the MOST important of all …
The top 4 most important issues were all about MONEY – no surprises there!
Underfunded client Budgets for care plans and direct payments;
Lack of any accessible appeal or challenge mechanism against a social worker’s idea of how much is enough to meet need;
Social care charging and the workings of disability related expenditure;
The sector’s reliance on informal care from family members.
Total Respondent Percentage marking any given topic from our 20, as one of their 7 initial priorities
We were really pleased to see that inadequacies in public sector staff’s training about the legal framework made it into the top 10...
