Proposals for long-term social care funding and reform expected by...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : "So the Government's promise of a plan for social care is welcome.
60% : "The investment and reforms we're announcing today will help to modernise social care, get it working more closely with the NHS, and help deliver our Plan for Change.
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".
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.
49% : "Today's announcement suggests it may be three years before we see recommendations for longer term reform, including to the broken funding system for social care.
47% : Proposals for the long-term funding and major reform of social care in England may not be delivered until 2028, the Government has confirmed.
47% : "An independent commission is an opportunity to start a national conversation, find the solutions and build consensus on a long-term plan to fix the system Baroness Louise CaseyThe 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.
47% : She added that 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".Shadow health secretary Edward Argar said: "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.
41% : "Professor Martin Green, chief executive of Care England, 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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