OVER £22.6 million in government funding for social care is nearly two months overdue and may not arrive at all, a charity warned today.

Introduced in 2023, the government’s Accelerating Reform Fund committed £42.6m over two years towards scaling adult social care and supporting unpaid carers.

But the Carers Trust says that the second of the £22.6m tranche has still not been allocated, despite being due for payment in August.