{"id":79383,"date":"2025-01-03T11:50:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T11:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=79383"},"modified":"2025-01-03T11:50:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T11:50:02","slug":"wes-streeting-has-no-political-will-or-long-term-commitment-to-solve-social-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/01\/03\/wes-streeting-has-no-political-will-or-long-term-commitment-to-solve-social-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Wes Streeting has no political will or long-term commitment to solve social care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In anticipation of today's announcement of a Commission into social care by Wes Syreetinmg, The Health Foundation undertook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.org.uk\/reports-and-analysis\/briefings\/social-care-commissions-looking-back-to-move-forward?s=03\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a review of previous reviews, reports and commissions into the issue<\/a>. This is their summary of those over the last 25 years:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-79384\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_1568-550x913.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_1568-550x913.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_1568-181x300.jpeg 181w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_1568-768x1276.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_1568-925x1536.jpeg 925w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_1568-241x400.jpeg 241w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_1568.jpeg 1153w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As they said in the summary to their report:<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-content\">\n<div class=\"o-layout-container--inner c-content__layout_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"c-content__wrapper\">\n<blockquote><p>Adult social care in England desperately needs reform and investment. Amid reports the government is considering a new Royal Commission to establish cross-party consensus on social care reform, we look back at the approaches and proposals of previous similar reviews.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, these policy reviews have made little headway towards tackling the problems in social care. Whether this government\u2019s attempt at reform succeeds where others have failed will depend largely on political will and committing to providing the long-term investment needed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Streeting has indicated three things with his announcement:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There will be no money for any planned changes, or he would have adopted previous recommendations.<\/li>\n<li>He has no desire to solve this problem, or he could use the previous reports as the basis for making progress.<\/li>\n<li>He wants this issue to be left for the next government, post 2029, to solve.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In summary, he has no political will or long-term commitment to solve this problem. That summarises just about everything that needs to be known about Wes Streeting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In anticipation of today&#8217;s announcement of a Commission into social care by Wes Syreetinmg, The Health Foundation undertook a review of previous reviews, reports and<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/01\/03\/wes-streeting-has-no-political-will-or-long-term-commitment-to-solve-social-care\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,16,87,118,128,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-ethics","category-health","category-labour","category-nhs","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79387,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79383\/revisions\/79387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}