Health Secretary Wes Streeting has now announced proposals for the long-term funding and major reform of social care in England with an independent commission, led by Baroness Louise Casey, expected to begin in April.
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00:00Well what we're announcing today is an independent commission on adult social care led by Louise
00:06Casey, Baroness Casey, she's a crossbench peer and frankly she's one of Whitehall's
00:11best known doers and social reformers, exactly the type of person that we need to knock heads
00:18together across the political spectrum and build the national consensus that we want
00:23to build to deliver the national care service our country needs to support older and disabled
00:28people into the 21st century because as far as I'm concerned, and I said this during the
00:32general election campaign, it's not a shortage of good ideas on social care that we have,
00:38it's a shortage of good politics and that is why we're determined to work together across
00:43the party divide. I've spoken to my Conservative and Liberal Democrat counterparts in recent
00:49days who are on board, I'm writing to the leaders and spokespeople from all of the Westminster
00:55parties today and also my counterparts in the devolved governments because we really
00:59want to work together to grip this issue.