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By Jessica Frank-Keyes An extra half a billion pounds in emergency social care funding for councils is a “sticking plaster” which won’t address “tough choices”, accountants have warned. Levelling up secretary Michael Gove confirmed today local authorities will receive £500m in emergency cash to be spent on social care services. But the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales warned that additional cash only amounted to around 70p per month for each resident. Director Alison Ring said: “This is a sticking plaster designed to defer confronting the major problems with the local go…

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