Poll shows four in five people want Prime Minister to fix social care

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : The Care and Support Alliance is a national coalition of leading charities with an interest in social care.
61% : 'That's why we are calling on the public to contact their MPs, to ask them to ensure there's real action on social care this year,
54% : Last night council leaders demanded a timetable for social care reform be set out in the next fortnight.
49% : Mr Johnson said on his first day as Prime Minister he would 'fix' social care crisisTen years after a landmark report proposed a solution to England's social care crisis, a poll has found four in five want Boris Johnson to act now to fulfil his promise to 'fix' the problem.
46% : 'In many respects social care has got worse here over these ten years and the huge rise in staff vacancies is a big part of the reason why, since it is impossible to deliver consistently decent, reliable care if there aren't enough care workers to do the job.'
44% : Caroline Abrahams, alliance co-chairman and charity director of Age UK, said: 'It's galling to think what a wasted decade this has been for social care here, when so many other countries have put their social care provision on a firm financial basis and brought it up to date.
37% : Dozens of charities have together called on the public to contact their MPs to express their anger over the 'wasted decade' on social care.
35% : Social care in England has also got worse over the past decade due to a combination of funding cuts and an increase in demand because of the ageing population.

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