It’s almost time to bid farewell to Boris, the man who pledged in his first speech as PM to “fix the crisis in social care once and for all.”
The crisis in social care isn’t fixed once and for all. Nowhere near. The pandemic shone glaring high beams on everything wrong with the social care sector, and showed up just how much money (waaaay more money) was needed to bring it up to scratch. Seven billion, in case you were wondering. Per year.
Six hundred disabled people are joining the waiting list to be assessed for social care every single day. The list currently has 300,000 people on it. That’s 90,000 more people than there were six months ago. A quarter of those people have been waiting for over six months.
