Councils 'need billions more to fund adult care as population ages'

IFS puts the hike in costs down to growing numbers of disabled adults and rising wages Councils will need billions of pounds in funding increases over the course of the next parliament to finance adult social care, an economic thinktank has found. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said a hike in costs was mainly the result of an ageing population, growing numbers of disabled adults and rising wages.