Julie
Cooper MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Minister, commenting on the new joint
report on social care costs by Independent Age and the Institute and Faculty of
Actuaries, said:
“Older
people still face grave uncertainty over the cost of care because of the social
care policy vacuum created by a Tory Government bereft of ideas.
“Having
U-turned on their disastrous dementia tax policy the Tories failed to tell us
what the level of the cap on costs would be and they are now using a
long-awaited Green Paper to kick a decision on long-term social care funding
into the long grass.
“Labour
will ease the crisis in social care by building a National Care Service based
on the principle of shared risk so no-one faces catastrophic care costs as they
do now.”
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