A(nother) Government Plan for Social Care
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at the government’s plans for a new independent commission on the future of adult social care in England.
It's due to start this April, but the final proposals are unlikely to be delivered before 2028.
Adam is joined by Vicki Young, BBC’s deputy political editor, and Mike Padgham, chair of the Independent Care Group, the association for all care providers in York and North Yorkshire.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. Hello, now I've been a journalist at the BBC for about 23 years now. |
| 0:09.4 | I know, time has flown. And there's a story that just keeps coming up again and again and again. |
| 0:13.8 | And it is what to do about adult social care in England, whether how to pay for it, whether there should be a cap on how much individuals |
| 0:21.7 | have to pay, how much the taxpayer should pay, how much we should be paying the people that work |
| 0:26.2 | in the system. And many have tried to reform it and few have succeeded. But West Streeting the |
| 0:32.1 | Health Secretary today announced that he's going to have another go by setting up an independent |
| 0:36.5 | commission. |
| 0:40.2 | The twist is it will not report back for quite some time. |
| 0:43.0 | We will discuss what it all means on this episode of Newscast. |
| 0:45.8 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:46.9 | I like landscapes. |
| 0:48.2 | I don't think I'm being rude. |
| 0:50.7 | Japping, unemployed people who are overweight. |
| 0:51.9 | That is not the agenda. |
| 0:54.2 | It's the fun police working overtime. |
| 0:55.7 | The star is born, Elon. |
| 0:58.4 | So hurt that a miracle let this happen. Frankly, I think we need a British Trump. |
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| 1:03.6 | Blimey. |
| 1:04.4 | Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio, and we're going to focus today's episode entirely |
| 1:08.5 | on this big announcement from the Health Secretary West Streeting about the instigation of a new independent commission looking at adult social |
| 1:16.5 | care in England, something that many, many administrations have looked at, many, many administrations |
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