A royal commission on the future of social care (Editorial, 3 December) would be yet another example of how successive governments have kicked the care can further down the road. Older and disabled people, and their families, are desperate for the government to sort out the care crisis once and for all. With its large majority, it has a chance to be bold and take decisive action that would benefit every family across the country – in the same way that it has acted to reform the railways. Care is an equally important part of our national and local infrastructure.
Learning from Labour councils like Hammersmith & Fulham, free personal care could be the basis for a fairer, simpler and sustainable national care service. It just requires political will.
Sally Powell and Stephen Burke
Former Labour councillors, London borough of Hammersmith & Fulham
