Saga head warns on government ring-fencing failure

Saga warned last month that the government’s promise of £7.2bn worth of care funding is ‘meaningless without ring-fencing’ and denounced it as ‘spin’.The government committed £7.2bn extra from the NHS budget and supplementary PSS grants for councils to spend on care over four years to 2014/15 (CCMn February 2012) but the money has not been…