Labour kickstarts social care shake-up - with help for thousands to stay at home

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Caroline Abrahams, Charity Director at Age UK, said: "Far-reaching reform and refinancing of social care is long overdue, so today's announcement is unequivocally good news - it could potentially finally break the logjam that has stood in the way for many years."
59% : He went on: "The investment and reforms we're announcing today will help to modernise social care, get it working more closely with the NHS, and help deliver our Plan for Change.
57% : Baroness Louise Casey has been tasked with leading an independent probe into social care, to pave the way for the "National Care Service" that Labour promised in its manifesto.
53% : Social care workers will also be trained to carry out more health checks, such as blood pressure tests, redressing wounds, managing diabetes, adjusting catheters and mental health support, in a bid to free up hospital beds.
51% : "This could offer a real opportunity to break the cycle of failure to reform social care," Ms Woolnough said.
49% : The current timetable to report by 2028 is far too long to wait for people who need social care, and their families.
43% : Boris Johnson, who promised to fix social care when he became PM in 2019, announced in 2021 that there would be an £86,000 cap on lifetime care costs from October 2023.

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