Burnham to seek cross-party consensus over urgent reforms to social care

Rightwing media hostility helped sink his reform plans in 2010, but the new PM’s passionate speech suggests there is now clear political will for change For campaigners perpetually disappointed by the failure of England’s political classes to fix England’s creaking adult social…

The prime minister is right to want to change the political culture, but aversion to honesty about the funding options runs deep in Westminster Andy Burnham is well qualified to speak on the subject of what can go wrong with social care policy. As health secretary in 2010, he…

Social care is the thorny issue which politicians have failed to solve for decades. Today though, the new Prime Minister Andy Burnham put it back on the political agenda as he called for a ‘National Care Service’, saying that social care in the UK is “as unfair” as the…

As Andy Burnham outlines his aim to overhaul social care, BBC News speaks to the families caring for loved ones.

BlurryMe/Shutterstock The Big Conversation on Care is the latest attempt to fix England’s broken social care system. Getting a handle on this issue has been attempted no fewer than 22 times since the 1990s – but Prime Minister Andy Burnham has vowed that this time they’ll find…

The prime minister holds cross-party talks as he speeds up review of social care in England.

Andy Burnham has pleaded for opponents to engage in a cross-party discussion over sweeping adult social care reform as he warned that “difficult decisions” would have to be taken to fund the plans. In a press conference from a Jewish care centre in North London, Burnham…

Andy Burnham will host a summit with Tory leader Kemi Badenoch and Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey to discuss social care reforms

Prime Minister Andy Burnham will meet opposition party leaders on Wednesday to kickstart his effort to reform the UK’s creaking social care system.

The Prime Minister has invited Kemi Badenoch for talks on the issue on Wednesday despite her warning that the £18 billion cost should be funded by spending cuts, not new taxes.

Ed Davey, Andy Burnham, Kemi Badenoch Andy Burnham has invited the main opposition parties to help him address the growing crisis with the UK’s social care sector. It comes after the prime minister pledged to find common ground across the political spectrum during his campaign…

Prime minister invites Badenoch and Davey – but not Farage – to discuss how to fix decades-old funding crisis Andy Burnham has promised “problem-solving, not point-scoring” before a speech on social care in which he will set out his strategy for resolving one of the most…