The Carer #45 Summer 2019

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Health and Social Care Secretary Sets Out Social Care Strategy

Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock has set out the Government’s programme to address the social care challenge. Speaking to the Local Government Association at its annual conference in Bournemouth earlier this month, Mr Hancock laid out a seven-point plan to tackle the social care crisis. In his address Hancock admitted that the Government should have fixed social care by now, describing it as “one of the biggest challenges we face as a society.” He said; “You know we’re committed to publishing the social care green paper, but it’s been held up by the parliamentary logjam and a lack of cross-party consensus. Let me level with you: to tackle this great challenge as a society, we need to be frank about the

potential solutions. Of course, we need a sustainable long-term solution to the funding of social care. The best solutions to these sorts of long-term problems are cross-party, and social care has been bedevilled by a failure to build a cross-party consensus.” He added “Infamously, during the 2017 election campaign. But more recently too – when my colleague Damian Green recently proposed a scheme very similar to a plan supported by not one but 2 cross-party Commons select committees, by 10:42am on the day of the launch, the Shadow Chancellor had condemned it as a “tax on getting old”. "It’s not the first time narrow partisan politics has got in the way of a solution but let us hope it’s the last. “But this isn’t the only frustration. I imagine you share

my frustration too that the debate in public focuses almost entirely only on one part of the system. Care for people as they get old is incredibly important. But half of the cost is for people of working age – and that cost is rising – and the cost of children’s social care is increasing too.” He acknowledged that social care has for many years has not received the attention and support that it deserves. Weeks earlier former health and social care secretary Jeremy Hunt admitted in a TV debate that cuts in social care have gone too far. During a debate on Tuesday 18 June with fellow leadership candidates Hunt admitted the care system needed more money.

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