Social care – a crisis which politicians have fumbled for years. Care provision is vital to keep people living as happily as possible at home. But political solutions have repeatedly failed.
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Conservatives called Labour plans a ‘death tax’ in 2015. Labour attacked Theresa May’s so-called dementia tax in 2017. Boris Johnson’s promise to fix social care ‘once and for all’ never happened.
And on and on it goes.
Now, Labour is betting on cross-bench peer Louise Casey to change that – and lead an independent commission to reform the sector.
But that means change won’t happen until 2028.
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