1. Let’s welcome the scale of today’s @commonshealth report on #socialcare. £7bn, a cap, free personal care, and workforce reform is a strong package. You might want to review the mix of measures - it offers less to working age people - but would be a very good starting point. https://twitter.com/commonshealth/status/1319051085802172417">https://twitter.com/commonshe...

2. It doesn’t offer everything you want? Perhaps, but we have to start somewhere. If #socialcare continually rejects all except the absolute best solution, change will never happen (or you’ll get a cap and nothing else). https://www.lgcplus.com/services/health-and-care/simon-bottery-why-social-care-needs-to-give-knee-jerk-reactions-the-elbow-31-07-2020/">https://www.lgcplus.com/services/...

3. Of course it’s only a recommendation from a parliamentary committee (albeit an influential one). Policymakers seem only to commit to #socialcare reform when they’re not in a position to implement it. Somehow that has to change.