First step towards National Care Service - but not until 2028

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Ministers have launched an independent commission, led by Baroness Casey, to "transform social care" - but the latter phase of the two-part commission will not make its final recommendations for England until the end of 2028.
50% : Asked by reporters on a trip to Carlisle whether ministers were "kicking [the reforms] into the long grass", Mr Streeting said: "This government is determined to grip the crisis in social care which is historic and has been decades in the making.
47% : "We will engage constructively to deliver much-needed long-term social care reform, but after 14 years in opposition it is deeply disappointing that Labour don't have a plan for social care.
45% : The first phase will report to Sir Keir Starmer in mid-2026, looking at the issues facing social care and recommending medium-term reforms, while the second phase is expected two years later and will make recommendations for the longer term.
37% : Read more from Sky News:Badenoch calls for 'long overdue' inquiry into grooming scandalThe last of the hereditary peersHe said no political party had "clean hands on this", highlighting how the Tories attacked Gordon Brown's attempts to reform social care in 2010 as the "death tax", while Theresa May was accused of trying to introduce a "dementia tax" with a proposed cap on social care costs.
33% : He said that while government's review acknowledged "the decade-long crisis in social care", there was a risk of it "becoming yet another repot that gathers dust while the sector crumbles".
27% : Read more from Sky News:The bizarre story of a fake carerSocial care services for thousands 'under threat'Shadow health and social care secretary Edward Argar said Labour had made the job of social care providers "even harder".

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