The health secretary has visited a care home in Cumbria following his announcement on social care reforms. Wes Streeting met with care workers following his announcement that the independent commission, chaired by Baroness Louise Carey, is set to begin work in April. Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00So you've had the doors widened so you can get around and then made
00:04accessible so you can get to the sink and do your own bits and pieces and
00:09then you've also had a downstairs bathroom put in as well so it's more accessible.
00:13We've just got to put you up in there, it's not going to happen. They've come to see it and that's it.
00:19I can totally understand the cynicism because there are so many people at the moment across the room.
00:26They've forced that to finish. They've really involved us for a period of time.
00:33You're such a great example of this, it means you can stay in your own home,
00:37you're not dependent on other people, you can get up and about and do what you
00:41want to do when you want to do them. It takes the burden off.
00:45It does, yes.
00:47As informal carers, that's part of our assessment is to make sure that we can support them as well.
00:52Yeah.