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Council Tax

The crisis in social services is bound to be made worse by the formula because of increasing demands from old people’s and, indeed, young persons’ services, but that must be seen in the context of the crisis in the NHS as well, owing to increasingly close links between it and social services—links that the Government and most sensible people want. What steps do the Government intend to take to ensure that those two crises do not simply play against each other and cause a steady deterioration in services, both for those who look to the NHS and for those who look to their local councils?