Care reforms 'to increase costs and legal challenges'

By Kaye Wiggins2013-12-05T10:15:00

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The government’s plans to create a national standard for social care eligibility could place unfunded new burdens on councils and lead to an increase in legal challenges, ministers have been warned.

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