'Every day I'm just winging it': The families hoping for social care reform

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

Burnham Vows to Tackle UK’s Expensive Social Care Problems

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

By Lucy White

Brave New World or Groundhog Day? Burnham revisits old ground in speech on social care

Right-wing 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 care system, the fear was that Andy Burnham’s long-trailed speech would be less Brave New World, more Groundhog Day. Burnham acknowledged he had been here before. Back in 2010, as health and social care secretary, he ...

By Patrick Butler Social policy editor

UK’s PM Burnham vows to fix Britain’s ‘unfair’ adult care system

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham pledged on Wednesday to take difficult decisions to overhaul England’s adult social care system, saying he wanted to work with other parties to end unfair high costs for users that he likened to US healthcare. Successive governments have failed to reform adult social care, for which families can pay hundreds of thousands of pounds, after previous proposals were defeated by opposition parties ‌who dubbed them a “dementia tax” or “death tax”. Burnham did not...

By Reuters

New UK leader Burnham vows to fix a 'broken' social care system

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham pledges to fix the "broken" social care system

By Jill Lawless

Burnham pledges to fix England’s ‘unfair’ adult care system

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham pledged on Wednesday to overhaul England’s adult social care system, saying he wanted to work with other parties to better fund a service where costs for users had become as unfair as those for U.S. healthcare. Successive governments have failed to reform adult social care, for which families can pay […]

PM Burnham vows tough overhaul to fix UK's broken social care system

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham pledged sweeping reforms to England's adult social care system on Wednesday, promising politically difficult decisions to curb what he call...