- Baroness Louise Casey has accused successive governments of being asleep at the wheel over social care, describing Covid-19 pandemic care home failings as a national shame.
- New research commissioned for her review into social care reform concluded that the system in England is fundamentally fragmented with no single point of overall responsibility.
- The report by the Nuffield Trust and Institute for Government highlights that England is the only UK nation without a mandatory register of social care workers.
- Baroness Casey backed recommendations from the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, which found care homes were treated as an afterthought during the pandemic.
- Speaking at the National Children and Adult Services Conference, Baroness Casey called for a new settlement for care ahead of her final reform recommendations due next summer.
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