The long-promised Government Green Paper on social care has barely been mentioned in the Tory leadership campaign, where the candidates have been far too busy out-Brexiting each other. As this kind of dog-eat-dog politics has dragged on, the chances of creating a social care fund have been delayed. But it has long been my view that social care should be a universal, market-based system into which almost everyone should pay. Clearly a new system based on automatic enrolment is not an immediate cure-all for the social care crisis. This would help keep care homes out of reach of private equity cowboys whose investments in the sector have been so damaging.

Source: Daily Mail July 18, 2019 00:33 UTC