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What is Andy Burnham's plan to 'fix' social care? | BBC Newscast
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37:22Now PlayingPrime Minister Andy Burnham has said he wants a major reform of the current social care system in England and set out his three-point plan to achieve it.
The prime minister has brought forward a review of social care by Baroness Casey, and has asked the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats to work with him on his reforms.
But what does Andy Burnham mean by a ‘National Care Service’? Why have 22 previous reviews into adult social care failed to affect change? And how will he fund the major task of fixing social care in England?
Adam is joined by Alison Holt, Social Affairs Editor, Jim Reed, Health Correspodnent, and Ben Chu, Policy and Analysis Correspondent at BBC Verify to comb through everything we learned - and everything we didn’t - from the Prime Minister today.
To unpack everything we learned today of this Adam is joined by Social Affairs Editor Alison Holt, Health Correspondent Jim Reed, and Policy and Analysis Correspondent at BBC Verify Ben Chu.
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