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Where is the plan for social care?
Despite promising to ‘fix’ social care, government has kicked the can down the road again
By
Daniel Button
13 May 2021
Despite promising to ‘fix’ social care, it looks like the government has kicked the can down the road again. In Tuesday’s Queens Speech, social care was only given a cursory mention, and government has not tabled a specific bill for reform. Just a single line — “Proposals on reforms to social care will be brought forward.”
The system has needed root and branch reform since long before Covid-19 arrived on the