The budget should address cuts and chronic underfunding | Letters

A baby in hospital. ‘Last year local authority funding for children’s palliative care charities was cut by a staggering 61%’, writes Barbara Gelb of Together for Short Lives.Social care is on the edge of a financial cliff, with years of cuts and under-investment impacting on the sector’s stability and calling its long-term sustainability into question.Many have been waiting with bated breath for a long-term government solution to this growing crisis, and while some action