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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Patrick Butler Social policy editor

‘Get this done’: Andrew Dilnot attacks three-year plan for English social care

An elderly woman stares out of a window.
Dilnot warned of ‘simply unacceptable’ challenges facing families in the UK. Photograph: Abraham Gonzalez Fernandez/Getty Images

Downing Street’s plan to spend three years preparing a blueprint to overhaul England’s social care is “inappropriate” given the urgency of the crisis facing frail, ill and disabled people, a leading care expert has told MPs.

Sir Andrew Dilnot, the architect of previous government-commissioned attempts to reform adult social care funding, said that with clear backing from Keir Starmer, new plans could feasibly be in place by the end of the year.

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