Ministers plan biggest shake-up of adult social care in England for decades

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : "So the government's promise of a plan for social care is welcome.
59% : The taskforce, to be led by the cross-bench peer Louise Casey, will be charged with developing plans for a new national care service, a Labour election manifesto pledge, in the biggest shake-up to social care in England in decades.
52% : " Casey, a former civil servant and go-to troubleshooter for governments of all stripes and for four former prime ministers, "will involve all political parties and the public" to build a "national consensus" around what the country wants from social care, Streeting added.
51% : "The current timetable to report by 2028 is far too long to wait for people who need social care, and their families," she said.
50% : The first-phase report to the government is expected in the middle of 2026, examining issues facing social care and recommending medium-term reforms.
49% : "Today's announcement suggests it may be three years before we see recommendations for longer term reform, including to the broken funding system for social care.
44% : "In 2009, when Andy Burnham established cross-party talks on social care, David Cameron pulled out and leaked details of the talks to attack Labour in the election campaign.
43% : " Prof Martin Green, the chief executive of Care England, said: "This announcement acknowledges the decade-long crisis in social care, but it risks becoming yet another report that gathers dust while the sector crumbles.
38% : "I was honest about the reason why - general election campaigns are where plans for social care go to die," he wrote.

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