UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham is pledging to fix England’s social care system.
With an estimated two million adults not having their needs met, 1 in 6 adults doing unpaid care, and costs increasingly falling on families, the challenge of fixing social care is as big as they get.
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It’s an issue that almost every one of our last seven Prime Ministers has promised and failed to solve. Burnham had a stab at it himself when he served under Gordon Brown. And also failed. Now he has the majority to push through legislation, a couple of years before an election.
Burnham wants a national care service with better pay for staff, and he warned that paying for it will involve "difficult decisions".
The prime minister also wants cross-party consensus, but the Conservatives say any tax hikes are a red line.
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