Social Care - What's Changing?
The Briefing Room
BBC
4.8 • 731 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
For decades the difficult problem of social care - how to fund it, how to provide it - has been kicked into the long grass by government after government. But last month the Prime Minister announced a policy which he said meant no-one would have to sell their house to fund their social care. He also promised more money for social care - though not immediately. A "health and social care levy" is to be created through an increase in National Insurance contributions. So is the problem of social care being fixed? Joining David Aaronovitch in The Briefing Room are:
Alison Holt, BBC Social Affairs Editor Peter Beresford, visiting Professor in the School of Health Sciences, University of East Anglia Sally Warren, Director of Social Policy at the King's Fund Jill Manthorpe, Professor of Social Work and Director, NIHR Health & Social Care Workforce Research Unit, King's College London.
Producers: John Murphy, Soila Apparicio, Kirsteen Knight Sound Engineer: Graham Puddifoot Editor: Jasper Corbett
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Welcome to the briefing room with me, David O'Ronovich. |
| 0:07.7 | The briefing room, it's you, it's me. |
| 0:10.2 | It's a big issue, top experts, and 28 minutes. |
| 0:13.6 | Let's go. |
| 0:14.7 | And this week, the great social care crisis. |
| 0:18.1 | Will the latest government proposals fix it? |
| 0:24.6 | Music care crisis. Will the latest government proposals fix it? Cast your minds back through the long eons of time to last month. When the government |
| 0:30.6 | finally announced major changes to the funding of social care in all parts of the UK. |
| 0:35.6 | In England, a new cap of £86,000 was announced above which people would not be expected |
| 0:42.6 | to contribute to the cost of their own care. |
| 0:45.6 | A new money for social care paid for by an increase in national insurance was promised, |
| 0:50.9 | but not for a few years. |
| 0:52.8 | As ever, it takes a bit of time to analyse what this all |
| 0:55.9 | means. So a few weeks on, what can we now say about the future of social care? Step inside |
| 1:02.5 | the briefing room and we'll find out. Let's start by reminding ourselves what exactly the government is now proposing. |
| 1:13.1 | Joining me in the briefing room is Alison Holt, the BBC's social affairs editor. |
| 1:18.0 | Alison Holt, what are the main facets of the new social care policy that the government announced? |
| 1:24.6 | Well, the headline to it is its cap on care costs. Now, this is an £86,000 |
| 1:30.9 | limit to the amount of money that any one person is meant to pay towards their care during their |
| 1:38.8 | lifetime. And this is to answer a really age-old problem, which is that there are some people who end up paying thousands and thousands of pounds towards their care because they might arrive at old age or disability thinking that they'll get support from the NHS, but the sort of personal care at the heart of what care homes and home care staff do |
| 2:03.2 | is not covered by the NHS. So that £86,000 cap is the headline to the changes. And they |
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