Tories must take immediate action on social care crisis it has created – Keeley

Barbara Keeley MP, Labour’s
Shadow Minister for Social Care, commenting on the Government’s announcement
that they will publish a Green Paper on the long term funding of social care by
summer 2018, said:

“This
complacent Tory Government is dragging its feet over the long term funding of
social care at a time when the system is creaking under winter pressures.

“Scandalously,
on this trajectory it will have taken a year to publish this Green Paper from
the date it was announced and will be even longer before we have a clear policy
from the Government.

“Alarmingly,
it also does not appear that the Green Paper will consult on working age people
with social care needs.

“Given
the current crisis in social care, the Tory Government must take immediate
action to find a long-term solution to the social care crisis it has created.”