The number of beds in the sector fell by 230 over the last 12 months as the NHS faces a bed-blocking crisis and there is pressure to discharge thousands of hospital patients into social care.
Care home capacity in the UK shrank in 2022 for the first time in three years, data shared exclusively with Sky News has revealed.
"What we're seeing is massive underfunding, and that is leading to closures. There is bound to be more closures because the pressure has become unbearable.", while also having to deal with spiralling food inflation and a shrinking workforce. AbleCare pays its staff the voluntary real living wage of £10.90 per hour, but Mr Hawker said newer entrants to the market"just don't have that option as the numbers don't add up".
It was a prospect Jenny Creed, 76, faced earlier this month after the home her husband was in told residents it would be closing in four weeks.
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