Long-term social care reform unlikely before 2028, says government

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.

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.