RISE: Worcestershire Lib Dems Cllr Liz Tucker (top right) and Cllr Fran Oborski
COUNCIL tax should be raised further to boost funding for social care, the county's Lib Dems have said.
Worcestershire County Council's Liberal Democrats have proposed raising council tax by three per cent from April - half a per cent higher than the plans put forward by the authority's ruling Conservatives.
The extra half per cent would go directly towards adult social care and looking after some of the county's most vulnerable people.
The extra increase would raise a further £1.4 million, the council's Lib Dem group said.
The county council's Conservative administration has already proposed increasing its share of council tax by two and a half per cent from April - one per cent of which would go directly to adult social care.