Care funding crisis needs national debate | Letters

Government proposals to deal with the care funding crisis in the local government finance settlement by allowing a small increase in council tax will not be nearly enough to plug the gap, and we are very clear that full reform of funding is needed (Council tax rise 'not enough to fill funding gap in social care', 16 December).

The 2% increase in council tax this year brought in about 360m nationally, and still leaves a predicted gap of 2.2bn by 2020. This would suggest that council tax would need to increase by about 14% to deal with this problem, ignoring any other inflationary problems faced by any provider of services.