Britain has a social care crisis. Here's how Labour plans to fix it | Wes Streeting

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : Wes Streeting is secretary of state for health and social careThree sentences in Labour's 1945 manifesto contained a simple but historic promise: "The best health services should be available free for all.
61% : She and I have already been working together on immediate action we can take today to improve social care.
59% : She is a trusted, independent figure, who will involve all political parties and the public in the process of building a national consensus around what our country wants from social care, and how a National Care Service can best meet our needs.
58% : She has served under Labour, Conservative and coalition governments.
58% : We are better integrating NHS and social care, with the NHS and local government sharing funding and working together to keep people out of hospital, which is better for patients and less expensive for taxpayers.
57% : We've also provided a £2,300 rise in carer's allowance for family carers, and have allocated extra funding to social care in the budget.
53% : Previous reviews on different aspects of social care, including Andrew Dilnot's work on care costs, will be fed into the commission.
51% : Despite an ageing population, access to publicly funded adult social care has fallen, and the number of older people receiving state-funded care in England has dropped by 10% since 2014-15.
51% : Alongside this action plan, we have legislated for fair pay agreements to help fill the 131,000 vacancies in social care.
49% : There is no solution to the crisis in the NHS that doesn't include a solution 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.
38% : I was honest about the reason why - general election campaigns are where plans for social care go to die.

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