Long-term social care reform unlikely before 2028

Health / Fri 3rd Jan 2025 at 09:19am

PROPOSALS on the long-term funding of adult social care in England are unlikely to be delivered before 2028 at the earliest, the government has confirmed reports the BBC.

Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting is promising “to finally grasp the nettle on social care reform”, with an independent commission due to begin work in April.

But the commission, chaired by Baroness Louise Casey, is not due to publish its final report until 2028.

Councils and care providers say that is too long to wait for the reform of vital services already on their knees.

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5 Comments for Long-term social care reform unlikely before 2028:

Brian Aston

2025-01-03 14:09:33

While I think that solving the long term social care situation is critical, especially to take some of the pressure off of the frontline health service. I am a little confused. During the election campaign one of the key messages was that Labour had a clear, fully costed plan for this, that and the other. So far, the only clear plan that they seemed to have had was how many freebies ca they get before it is deemed to be "too many" and making sure that their union buddies who support each and every labour MP receive the pay rises they are all demanding.

Seamus

2025-01-04 03:09:17

So much for "change", a three year kicking of the can down the road just to justify the hundred or more quango's created by labour since july. More talking shops, less things done, greater cost.

Guy flegman

2025-01-04 08:43:23

And in the meantime Rome continues to burn

Jim

2025-01-04 11:16:13

They don’t want to tackle it, because it is going to take more money than we’ve got! As Boomers, we are in part to blame - Our Generation squandered the income from North Sea Oil & Gas, preferring to vote for lower taxes rather than putting the money into a Sovereign Wealth Fund, like Norway and when we sold off our National Assets like electricity to overseas buyer, we didn’t use the money to pay down the debt or to invest in infrastructure. Our generation was prepared for our parents to live on among the lowest pensions in the EEC - Remember, in the old days when you’d go to Spain and see German pensioners living it up! We also expected our parents to take care of their ill partner at home with little fuss - Dementia was a thing of shame and you’d keep the person hidden away for as long as possible. Add to this the fact that we had fewer kids than our parents and you’ve got a care timebomb on the way. Our expectations are so much higher than our parents, along with the triple lock and more of us having private pensions, we've got savings and investments and a lot more of us own our own homes. However, unlike the rest of Europe we don’t have State or Private Social Care insurance! So, there are more of us, and we expect more - Our kids can’t afford to pay for it, so who is going to pay? A bit more on Employer NI isn’t going to sort this one!

Nicholas Taylor

2025-01-05 15:00:37

I would suggest hiring a large room for a month, invite staff from all walks of the care and health service business to participate in brain storming sessions, using best practice, to come up with a plan to reform services. And make sure that not a single polititian can enter the room. I would throw in the pot that all hospices and air ambulance serviices should be state funded and such services expanded, housebuilders are compelled to build homes that are already adapted for use by older and infirm residents, all hospitals to have walk in centres and all have large patient discharge rooms big enough to get hospital beds re-used as quickly as possible.