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>Social care is now on the council to fund and many councils have squashed social care, along with libraries and early years provisions. The trap of outsourcing caught many councils out.

It could be phrased as - social care was a way to paper over cultural and societal cracks, by paying peanuts to people with limited job choices.

As in most things, our response to Covid has just exposed the endgame much quicker than expected.