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In its ‘Change’ Manifesto in 2024 Labour promised to reform social care by establishing a National Care Service.

During the General Election marketing campaign, Wes Streeting promised to honour the dedication of the earlier Government to implement a cap on the lifetime prices of non-public care at £86,000 from October 2025.

Within weeks of taking workplace, similtaneously scrapping the Winter Fuel Payment, Labour did exactly the other.

The cap on lifetime prices was completely deserted, and as an alternative of establishing a National Care Service, Labour proposed a Commission on Social Care to make sure there could be no significant reforms to social care earlier than the early 2030s (if in any respect).

Labour refuses to outline what they imply by a National Care Service; is it a parallel, highly effective social care physique on the traces of the NHS, or just a continuation of the prevailing system with a number of weak nationwide pointers and targets?

Nobody is aware of, together with Baroness Casey, who’s operating the Commission.

Every social care knowledgeable and charity privately agrees that establishing the Commission was a deliberate and cynical delaying tactic by the Government.

Wes Streeting has confirmed that there might be no further money for social care earlier than 2030/31. It has an unbelievably lengthy timetable with its Final Report not due till the tip of 2028, 4 years into this Parliament.

The Commission is a tragic cosplay and a waste of taxpayers’ cash. Charities align with the Commission as a result of they’re overly reliant on Government contracts and grants and are afraid to be too crucial.

Meanwhile, as Baroness Casey performs the lengthy recreation, tens of millions of older individuals are residing with indignity and discomfort of their ultimate years, as a result of they can’t get the social care help they should proceed residing in their very own properties.

Silver Voices is just not ready to place up with this gaslighting of the British public, which is why we’re campaigning, with a petition on the official Government web site, for the Casey Commission to be abolished and for the Government to crack on with reforms that have been promised in 2024 and are so lengthy overdue.