People should be protected from catastrophic costs of upfront care - Streeting

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : "This could offer a real opportunity to break the cycle of failure to reform social care," Ms Woolnough said.
51% : "The current timetable to report by 2028 is far too long to wait for people who need social care, and their families.
48% : "One of the reasons I genuinely think - even with the majority of the size that we've got - it's a good thing to try and build cross-party consensus, is, I want to come up with a plan that means whoever's in government after the next general election or the one after that -whether it's a Labour government or a Conservative government or a coalition, or whoever - that broadly speaking, we keep the same direction of travel on social care in the way that we have with the NHS since 1948 (when NHS was created).
45% : "This Commission will simply confirm what we already know - how many more reports must we endure before action is taken?"Hugh Alderwick, director of policy at the Health Foundation, also warned the Commission "must move quickly" or run the risk of "history repeating itself".Shadow health secretary, Edward Argar, said the Conservatives would "engage constructively" but "after 14 years in opposition it is deeply disappointing that Labour don't have a plan for social care".
44% : The timeline means that proposals for the long-term funding and major reform of social care in England may not be delivered until 2028.
44% : He added: "Even if the money had been there, councils hadn't been prepared to implement it from October 2025."Questioned on whether reforming social care was now being kicked into the long grass due to a lack of money, Mr Streeting insisted this was not the case.
43% : Asked on ITV's Good Morning Britain about the costs families face for care, Mr Streeting said: "I think one of the reasons why we've ended always back into this short-termist cycle of failure is: whenever we talk about social care, there are costs involved.
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.

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