'Urgent action´ needed to save 'crumbling´ social care sector,...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : She said: "It's great to see the first steps towards reform of social care laid out today.
55% : "In the first evidence session of this inquiry next week we will hear from experts on the subject, including Sir Andrew Dilnot and we will ask what impact inaction has had, fourteen years on from the Dilnot Commission's recommendations to reform social care."
53% : We're particularly encouraged by the commitment to look at the breadth of social care and not merely social care charges, plus the appointment of Baroness Casey.
51% : "This isn't about politics, it's about people, and we need the Government to act now."Melanie Williams, president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), welcomed the announcement of a new independent commission, but said the timescales "are too long and mean there won't be tangible changes until 2028''.
45% : Social care organisations have called on the government to act "urgently" on plans for long-term funding and reform after it was revealed that proposals may not be delivered until 2028.
44% : Baroness Louise Casey will lead an independent commission on social care (James Manning/PA)Professor Martin Green, chief executive of Care England, said the announcement acknowledges "the decade-long crisis in social care", but warned of the risk of it "becoming yet another repot that gathers dust while the sector crumbles".
44% : "The failure of successive governments to fix social care has moved an unbearable burden onto the shoulders of unpaid carers.
42% : The commission will be split over two phases with the first, reporting to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer in mid-2026, looking at the issues facing social care and recommending medium-term reforms.
40% : "Health Secretary Wes Streeting (Ben Whitley/PA)Caroline Abrahams, charity director at Age UK, said: "The most sensitive issue of how to fund the social care needs of our rapidly ageing population is not set to be addressed until the second phase of the commission and this is a major concern, partly because today's older people do not have time on their side but also because who knows what the state of the world, our politics or our economy will be by then?"The risk is that future events prevent the progress we desperately need to see and the more long and drawn out the commission is, the greater the risk will be."Even if all goes well the reality is that it will be the early 2030s before older people and their families get substantial benefit from a transformed approach to social care.

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