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Social Care Funding

Proceeding contribution from Baroness Keeley (Labour) in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 17 October 2018. It occurred during Opposition day on Social Care Funding.

We have indeed been doing more work on this, but we laid out in our manifesto—the hon. Gentleman’s party did not—what our future plans for social care funding were. We said what the three options for funding social care were and that it would either be one of those three options, or perhaps a combination of all three—I think that the party that is being left behind here is his.

The impact of social care cuts means that less care is now available for older and younger adults like. Four hundred thousand fewer older people got publicly funded care in 2015 than in 2010, and 1.4 million older people now have unmet social care needs. Put simply, that is over 1 million people who are not getting help with washing, dressing, going to the toilet, making meals or taking medication.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
647 c727 
Session
2017-19
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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