Burnham’s plans for social care and its workers are admirable but changes must come quickly

Andy Burnham has spoken about his belief that personal care should be a question of ‘social insurance’. Photograph: Victoria Jones/Shutterstock

As one of many hundreds of thousands of people in the UK with a parent with Alzheimer’s, the passage in Andy Burnham’s speech about social care moved me to tears.

My mother had not even been diagnosed when I watched Theresa May announce her 2017 general election manifesto in a hall in Halifax – with care funding at its heart.