Social Care - What's Changing?
It's been a thorny issue for decades. So what do the government's new proposals mean for social care and will they fix the problem?
For decades the difficult problem of social care - how to fund it, how to provide it - has been kicked into the long grass by government after government. But last month the Prime Minister announced a policy which he said meant no-one would have to sell their house to fund their social care. He also promised more money for social care - though not immediately. A "health and social care levy" is to be created through an increase in National Insurance contributions. So is the problem of social care being fixed?
Joining David Aaronovitch in The Briefing Room are:
Alison Holt, ±«Óãtv Social Affairs Editor
Peter Beresford, visiting Professor in the School of Health Sciences, University of East Anglia
Sally Warren, Director of Social Policy at the King's Fund
Jill Manthorpe, Professor of Social Work and Director, NIHR Health & Social Care Workforce Research Unit, King's College London.
Producers: John Murphy, Soila Apparicio, Kirsteen Knight
Sound Engineer: Graham Puddifoot
Editor: Jasper Corbett
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