Social Care: Ministers need to “get their act together” and complete review by end of the year

EMBARGO: 00.01 Tuesday 14th January

Responding to social sector leaders saying that social care can “ill afford” to wait three years for final decisions on reform, Liberal Democrat Care and Carers spokesperson Alison Bennett MP said:

“It is blindingly obvious that social care has been in crisis for years and is now on the brink of collapse.

“It is having unbearable consequences for patients, unpaid family carers and for the NHS as a whole as without a functioning social care sector the health service cannot function.

“After years of shameful Conservative neglect, the time for delay has long since been over and patients cannot afford another bout of kicking the can down the road.

“Yet, this is all Ministers have offered so far. They have failed to listen to warnings like these and unless they get their act together and complete this review by the end of the year patients will continue to suffer the consequences.” 

ENDS