Labour unveils plan for social care - but experts warn it will take too long

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : These were:Health Secretary Wes Streeting said the plans announced today "will help to modernise social care, get it working more closely with the NHS, and help deliver our Plan for Change.
59% : In July 2011, The Dilnot Commission published a series of recommendations on how to deliver a fair, affordable and sustainable funding system for social care in England.
55% : Amanda Pritchard, chief executive of NHS England, said "a long-term solution for social care is absolutely critical" to build an NHS "that is fit for the future".
50% : She said: "The current timetable to report by 2028 is far too long to wait for people who need social care, and their families.
46% : Successive governments have promised to fix social care but all have failed.
46% : The government cannot fix social care by piling on more responsibilities while stripping away funding.
45% : Abrahams added the fact funding for social care will not be addressed until the second phase of the commission 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".
45% : "The disconnect between the NHS and social care has plagued hospitals with up to one in three beds filled at any one time with patients fit enough to be discharged but who have nowhere to go, due to a lack of community care.
41% : The most fundamental issue to reforming social care is addressing the very tight means test which effectively limits state support to those with the lowest assets and highest needs.
39% : Care England chief executive Professor Martin Green said: "This announcement acknowledges the decade-long crisis in social care, but it risks becoming yet another report that gathers dust while the sector crumbles.

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