Damian Green: local authorities avoid care home developments

Tory MP says social care costs associated with older people dissuades already struggling councilsLocal authorities are increasingly reluctant to allow care homes and retirement homes to be built in their areas because they can’t afford the social care costs associated with that demographic, Conservative MP and former deputy prime minister Damian Green has said.The chair of the all party parliamentary group on longevity, who has produced his own policy paper, suggesting a solution to the so