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Social care cap plans ‘need funding and timetable’
Campaign groups have also said they fear the plans will be shelved because of the cost.
7 July 2012 Last updated at 16:37
Critics say the government needs to provide further details on how it will fund a cap on social care costs and when it will be introduced.
This week ministers are set to agree in principle a cap on what people in England pay towards their own care.
But Labour says the plans are “meaningless” without more details and a timetable.
And Michelle Martin, director general of Age UK said the government’s plans were “not nearly enough”.
Call this care? Government inspectors send hit squad into a care home
Call this care? Government inspectors send hit squad into a care home to rescue pensioners from abuse
- By Mirror.co.uk
- 8 Jul 2012 00:00
An investigation found that staff failed to give sick and disabled residents the medicine they needed and even left one pensioner lying naked in a wet bed for hours
Confused elderly patients were humiliated, restrained and neglected by staff at a care home.
Inspectors were so appalled by what they saw there they sent in their own team to take over. Existing managers were stood down and some staff were suspended.
An investigation found that staff failed to give sick and disabled residents the medicine they needed and even left one pensioner lying naked in a wet bed for hours.
Decision on social care funding in England facing delay
The government is to agree in principle to cap the amount elderly and disabled people in England pay towards the cost of social care, when it publishes plans on the issue next week.
But there will be no final agreement on how to fund the changes, and a decision will not be made until the spending review expected late next year.
Labour said talks to try to secure a cross-party consensus had broken down.
The health secretary said ministers were committed to continuing talks.
Last July, a review chaired by economist Andrew Dilnot put forward a raft of ideas for changes to adult social care funding in England.
The most notable of these was a £35,000 cap on what people should pay before they get help from the state.
