Walfinch CEO talks to BBC Oxford on how to improve social care in Oxfordshire

More than half of council tax collected by Oxfordshire County Council goes on adult and children's social care. But despite high spending levels, the sector is still struggling.

Fears have been raised some care homes in the county will be forced to close as costs rise.

So with a potential crisis looming, what would those standing in the local elections on 1 May do to improve social care in Oxfordshire?

Candidates have told BBC Oxford what they would do to tackle the challenges in the sector during a local election debate.

There have been strong warnings about the future from the care sector in recent months, with providers affected by measures announced in the budget.

The think tank Nuffield Trust has calculated independent care providers in England will be hit by an extra £2.8bn in this financial year - £940m in additional National Insurance and £1.85bn in extra wage costs.

Amrit Dhaliwal is the CEO of Wantage-based home care business Walfinch and said that current funding "isn't enough".

"Within this sector there will quite a lot of local authority care providers that will close down in the next 18 months to two years," he said.

"We've got an ageing population - it will just continue to grow and that will really cause a problem for hospital discharges, for people trying to come back home, unless we pay home care providers sensible rates."

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