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  • Wes Streeting defends pace of plans for adult social care reform – as it happened

    Wes Streeting defends pace of plans for adult social care reform – as it happened
    Health secretary says initial reports from commission led by Louise Casey will come next yearAs well as being asked about plans for adult social care and a new national care service, Wes Streeting was questioned this morning on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme about progress on assisted dying legislation in England and Wales.As health secretary, Streeting intervened before November’s vote, suggesting that legalising assisted dying in the two countries would have resource implications for th
  • Fixing England’s social care will be biggest challenge yet for Louise Casey

    Troubleshooter for four previous prime ministers is charged with saving adultsocial care sectorMinisters plan biggest shake-up of adult social care in England for decadesWes Streeting: Britain has a social care crisis. Here’s how Labour plans to fix itShe is the no-nonsense civil servant from Portsmouth who was called upon by four prime ministers to tackle deep-rooted social issues, including rough sleeping, antisocial behaviour, victims’ rights and troubled families.Now Louise Casey
  • Cross-party talks on adult social care reform in England to start next month

    Cross-party talks on adult social care reform in England to start next month
    Wes Streeting hit back at claims that Casey commission would take too long to act, saying ‘it’s reporting next year’UK politics live – latest updatesCross-party talks over the future of social care will begin next month as the health secretary hit back over criticism that a commission on the issue would take too long to bring about change.Wes Streeting said he wanted all parties to “agree on the direction on social care for the long term” and that the Conserva
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  • Wes Streeting defends pace of plans for adult social care reform – UK politics live

    Health secretary says initial reports from commission led by Louise Casey will come next yearThe government’s announcement of an independent commission into adult social care has been criticised as effectively stalling any reform in the short-term. Appearing on the Today programme this morning Wes Streeting was pressed on whether there would actually be any money to implement plans, and also on why they had cancelled plans that had been in progress.Nick Robinson introduced the segment by s
  • Ministers plan biggest shake-up of adult social care in England for decades

    Ministers plan biggest shake-up of adult social care in England for decades
    But final report on reforms would not emerge until 2028, which health leaders say is kicking crisis ‘into the long grass’Wes Streeting: Britain has a social care crisis. Here’s how Labour plans to fix itFixing UK social care will be biggest challenge yet for Louise CaseyMinisters are to launch a historic independent commission to reform adult social care, as they warned older people could be left without vital help and the NHS overwhelmed unless a “national consensus&rdqu
  • Fixing UK social care will be biggest challenge yet for Louise Casey

    Fixing UK social care will be biggest challenge yet for Louise Casey
    Troubleshooter for four previous prime ministers is charged with saving troubled national care sectorMinisters plan biggest shake-up of adult social care in England for decadesWes Streeting: Britain has a social care crisis. Here’s how Labour plans to fix itShe is the no-nonsense civil servant from Portsmouth who was called upon by four prime ministers to tackle deep-rooted social issues, including rough sleeping, antisocial behaviour, victims’ rights and troubled families.Now Louise
  • Britain has a social care crisis. Here’s how Labour plans to fix it | Wes Streeting

    Britain has a social care crisis. Here’s how Labour plans to fix it | Wes Streeting
    Our National Care Service will meet the urgent needs of our generation – just as the NHS did when it was created in 1948Wes Streeting is secretary of state for health and social careThree sentences in Labour’s 1945 manifesto contained a simple but historic promise: “The best health services should be available free for all. Money must no longer be the passport to the best treatment. In the new National Health Service there should be health centres where the people may get the b
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