Responding to ‘Care and Support Reimagined: a National Care Covenant for England’ published by the Archbishops’ Commission on Reimagining Care, Nuffield Trust Deputy Director of Policy Natasha Curry said:
“The Archbishops’ Commission is a welcome and practical intervention in the ongoing struggle to secure desperately needed reform for social care. The Commission is right that we need a fundamental shift in how we think of social care if we want to see the meaningful change needed to address the growing numbers of people going without the support they need to go about their daily lives.
“Too often social care reform has been framed around the costs rather than the benefit and pivotal role it plays in a functioning society. Where other countries have been able to make successful changes, it is because they have built upon a positive vision and foundations for a fair system.
“With the delay to reforms which had been announced, there has been a loss of momentum which had built up to improve the system. The Commission itself recognises this lack of progress. There is an urgent need to bring about wholesale reform to our broken care system so we hope these proposals bring social care back into the government’s focus.”