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The Commission on Social Care, chaired by Baroness Louise Casey, is a waste of house, a misuse of taxpayers’ cash, and a barrier to the novel reform wanted to resolve the social care disaster. Silver Voices will seek the advice of its members on whether or not to name for the Commission to be wound up, permitting for pressing cross-party talks on potential options to the disaster with out ready for Casey’s report in 2028.

Exactly one 12 months in the past, within the Express, I described the establishing of the Commission as a cop-out by the Labour Government, as a part of a deliberate plan to kick the entire subject into the political lengthy grass for the remainder of this Parliament. It was set as much as present cowl for damaged guarantees. However, I had hoped that Baroness Casey could be prepared to speed up the timetable and contemplate early radical modifications to deal with the issues.

I’ve tried to have interaction with the Commission’s staff of civil servants all through 2025 to stress the necessity for pressing motion, to no avail. Baroness Casey has refused, regardless of a number of requests, to satisfy me face-to-face.

It is obvious that Baroness Casey, regardless of her status for independence, has determined to do the Government’s bidding. Her interim report, due later this 12 months, is unlikely to do greater than recommend just a few tweaks to the present system of funding. Her Inquiry is continuing at a funereal tempo, with just one token assembly with the opposite political events and only a handful of public occasions.

She seems bored with defining what Labour’s promised ‘national care service’ means in observe. This is a Phantom Commission going by means of the motions on behalf of the Government.

This Commission was by no means mandatory, as 25 comparable inquiries have taken place since 1997, accompanied by a number of public consultations. We merely want clear political course and ambition, which Labour is at present failing to offer.

Baroness Casey must replicate on the urgency of the state of affairs, with hundreds dying whereas they wait in useless for the social care which may have prolonged their lives, and fall on her sword; in any other case, her status might be in tatters.