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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Kate Devlin and Jane Dalton

Health secretary Wes Streeting defends delay in social care reforms

Ministers have been warned adult social care needs urgent reform after it was revealed that long-awaited proposals may not even be published for another three years.

The government has announced the first step towards creating a National Care Service, a decade and a half after it was first proposed.

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