‘Once in a Generation’ Plan to Fix Social Care Crisis Is In Crisis After Sunak Slashes Its Budget

Boris Johnson’s “once in a generation” plan to solve the social care crisis is faltering and well behind schedule, according to a new report by the National Audit Office.

The 10-year programme launched by the then Prime Minister promised to “fix the crisis” in 2021 but his successor, Rishi Sunak, has slashed its budget by £1.1 billion and delayed a central plank of the scheme which would see nobody having to pay more than £86,000 for residential care……….

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Spending watchdog reveals £1bn funding pledge to reform adult social care redirected

Two years into its 10-year plan to overhaul adult social care, the UK government has delayed its plans to cap lifetime care costs that a person pays and scaled back plans for reforming the system it set out in December 2021 and, despite progress in some areas, is behind schedule even on its revised plans, according to the National Audit Office………..

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Adult social care has its fourth cabinet minister in two years following Rishi Sunak’s major government reshuffle.

Victoria Atkins has replaced Steve Barclay as health and social care secretary, after the latter spent one year in post in his second stint in the job. Since 2021, the post has also been occupied by Sajid Javid and – briefly, under Liz Truss’s short-lived premiership – Thérèse Coffey.………..

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