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Our social care sector is in crisis, with severe consequences for the quality of care, public finances, personal assets, pressures on unpaid carers of family and friends, and delays to discharging patients from hospitals. Care services have been slowly but relentlessly privatised. In recent years, one in ten people reaching the age of 65 have faced lifetime care costs of over £100,000, with some homeowners paying the entire value of their homes. The Conservatives’ cuts have led to £4.6 billion lost from social care budgets, despite rising demand. Around 1.2 million older people have care needs that are going unmet. Care in the community has become a cover for unseen neglect. In our first term, Labour will lay the foundations of a National Care Service for England. Our first urgent task will be to address the immediate funding crisis. We will increase the social care budgets by a further £8 billion over the lifetime of the next Parliament, including an additional £1 billion for the first year. This will be enough for providers to pay a real living wage without cutting the quality of care they provide. It will allow implementation of the principles of the Ethical Care Charter, already adopted in 28 council areas, ending 15-minute care visits and providing care workers with paid travel time, access to training and an option to choose regular hours. Labour will also increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers to align the bene t with rates of the Jobseeker's Allowance. Short-term funding solutions will not address the fundamental long-term challenges of our ageing demographics, nor meet the growing demands arising from late-life illnesses. The National Care Service will be built alongside the NHS, with a shared requirement for single commissioning, partnership arrangements, pooled budgets and joint working arrangements. We will build capacity to move quickly towards a joined-up service that will signpost users to all the appropriate services at the gateway through which they arrive. In its rst years, our service will require an additional £3 billion of public funds every year, enough to place a maximum limit on lifetime personal contributions to care costs, raise the asset threshold below which people are entitled to state support, and provide free end of life care. There are di erent ways the necessary monies can be raised. We will seek consensus on a cross-party basis about how it should be funded, with options including wealth taxes, an employer care contribution or a new social care levy. Improving the quality of social care is a vital part of providing dignity in older age and independence and support for people who are vulnerable or have a disability or a mental health condition. Labour will build a new National Care Service. We will also set out the funding alternatives clearly and honestly, seeking to implement change through consensus. Providing dignity and care in old age should transcend party politics and campaign slogans. |
#162
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UKIP down the pan. Theresa May humiliated. Bad days for Biggin.
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A care cap and an increase in the threshold below which the state will contribute towards your care costs. The actual numbers are not there but presumably in line with what was supposed to be put in place in 2020 following the recommendations of the Dilnot Commission (£72k cap and £118k threshold).
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Tactical voting
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But at least Labour have been more consistent in their proposals re social care. |
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Difference is labour didn't say there would be no cap, then u turn, then lie about it.
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Difference is Labour have Corbyn n Abbott.
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Yeah and you have Muddled May lol
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Whereas bizarrely the Tories did have the cap in their 2015 manifesto and had u-turned away from it, only to u-turn back again today. It's enough to make you dizzy. |
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That is a good point well made....
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After tonight May's made Diane Abbot look positively Churchillian.
She should've stuck to The One Show - more her level. The first time she sticks her head above the parapet she gets shot to pieces - who knew!
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God the delusions get bigger and bigger in here..
Hey kids please do not take anything you read in here as actual fact or truth go read three or four different newspapers and make sure there is no red at the top....
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She couldn't have done any worse in those interview, May couldn't answer a single question. Not one.
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Looking at the Tory manifesto it would appear that they decided not to have a cap as the proposals following the Dilnot Report 'mostly benefited a small number of wealthier people'.
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Did you watch the interview?
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the kids won't vote since there's no voting app
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