Funding adult social care

• The highest proportion of respondents (40%) support a further 2% increase for adults’ social care, followed by 36% who agree with a 1% increase
• Just under a quarter of respondents (24%) favour no increase to council tax
• There is no majority in any of the percent specific increases, but when the results are viewed as a binary choice as ‘increase council tax’ or ‘do not increase council tax’ – there is a clear majority support for an increase to some degree (76% of respondents)

This chart shows that:
24% of respondents support no increase in council tax for adult’s social care
36% of respondents support a 1% increase in council tax for adult’s social care
40% of respondents support a 2% increase in council tax for adult’s social care