Labour is not ‘grasping the nettle’ – it’s kicking social care reform into the long grass
The IndependentWes Streeting, known in Labour Land for his karaoke, channelled his inner Frank Sinatra to declare “the best is yet to come” for adult social care. She will chair an independent commission to propose the national care service in England Labour promised at last year’s election. Streeting is promising new national standards to help people who use the system, their families and care providers to buy the latest and best “assistive technology.” That makes the national care service sound suspiciously like one in which most people pay for their own kit. When Casey makes her final proposals, it will be exactly 40 years since Roy Griffiths delivered to Thatcher a report describing social care as “everybody’s distant cousin but nobody’s baby.” What’s changed?
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