How are ministers going to deal with the social care crisis? This could be a weekly question on Coffee House for the next few years, along with what is Labour’s policy on Brexit and when will Theresa May decide to stand down. As I wrote last week, the different parties are all claiming they want cross-party talks but not really doing much talking to one another. Now, I understand that ministers are planning to do a lot more talking before they make any sort of decision on how to create a long-term financial settlement for the sector.
As she started to unpick her disastrous manifesto proposal for a ‘dementia tax’, Theresa May promised a ‘consultation paper, a government green paper’ on social care funding. That was reiterated in the Queen’s Speech, which promised that ‘my ministers will work to improve social care an will bring forward proposals for consultation’.
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