Think-tank, the King’s Fund has said the decision to abolish care funding reforms was regrettable and meant that the government had “no plan to address the core issue in adult social care –the growing mismatch between the population’s need for support, and the availability of publicly funded care”.
Its chief executive, Sarah Woolnough, referred to Labour’s commitment in its election manifesto to build a cross-party consensus to reform adult social care, saying that the party needed to “work at pace to deliver it”.
Her equivalent at fellow think-tank the Nuffield Trust, Thea Stein, said “We urgently need to move social care reform from being tomorrow’s aspiration to being today’s priority,” she said. “Care users and their families are feeling the effects of this right now, and the new government needs to make a statement about their intention to improve this dire situation.”
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