{"id":365533,"date":"2026-07-29T19:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T18:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/why-has-everyone-failed-to-fix-social-care\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T19:00:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T18:00:05","slug":"why-has-everyone-failed-to-fix-social-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/why-has-everyone-failed-to-fix-social-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Why has EVERYONE FAILED to fix social care?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/azJR34FB30I\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Why has EVERYONE FAILED to fix social care?\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/azJR34FB30I\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Social care is the thorny issue which politicians have failed to solve for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Today though, the new Prime Minister Andy Burnham put it back on the political agenda as he called for a \u2018National Care Service\u2019, saying that social care in the UK is \u201cas unfair\u201d as the healthcare system in the US.<\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<\/p>\n<p>On this week\u2019s episode of The Fourcast, Matt Frei is joined by the former Conservative Work and Pensions Secretary Damien Green, Professor Richard Humphries who is a Senior Policy Advisor at the Health Foundation and the Liberal Democrat MP and Chair of the Health Select Committee Layla Moran. <\/p>\n<p>They discuss why the current system is not fit for purpose, why previous efforts at reform have failed and whether Andy Burnham could be the one to finally solve it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Get more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social care is the thorny issue which politicians have failed to solve for decades. 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