UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham is pledging to fix England’s social care system.
With an estimated two million adults not having their needs met, 1 in 6 adults doing unpaid care, and costs increasingly falling on families, the challenge of fixing social care is as big as they get.
It’s an issue that almost every one of our last seven Prime Ministers has promised and failed to solve. Burnham had a stab at it himself when he served under Gordon Brown. And also failed. Now he has the majority to push through legislation, a couple of years before an election.
Burnham wants a national care service with better pay for staff, and he warned that paying for it will involve "difficult decisions".
The prime minister also wants cross-party consensus, but the Conservatives say any tax hikes are a red line.
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