The failure

2021 saw the 25th anniversary of Stephen Dorrell, the Conservative Secretary of State for Health, launcing a consultation on a ‘partnership’ approach to reforming the funding of social care.

Since then there have been...

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Fourteen Secretaries of State for Health to fix social care 14 17

Seventeen Ministers for Care Services

... but still a failure to ‘fix the crisis in social care once and for all’.

For more information on the development of social care funding, see ‘A history of social care funding reform in England: 1948 to 2023’ at: www.kingsfund.org.uk/audiovideo/short-history-social-care-funding

In January 2023, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak made a speech where he outlined his top 5 priorities.

Could we have a sixth priority, Prime Minister?

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SAVE SOCIAL CARE

Help the 1.6m who can’t get care