By Nick Triggle Health correspondent, BBC News
Social-care budgets have already been squeezed in the past few years
The government’s commitment to reform social care will require greater investment, ministers have been told.
A bill limiting the cost to disabled and elderly people of their social care will form part of the government’s legislative programme for the next year, the Queen’s Speech revealed.
Previously ministers had proposed introducing a cap of £72,000 in 2016.
But campaigners and council chiefs told ministers budget cuts were already putting the system at risk.
Research by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) suggests the £16bn budget for social care, including services for both elderly and disabled people, is likely to be trimmed by £800m in the next 12 months.
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