The long-awaited green paper on adult social care funding will
be published next month, health secretary Andy Burnham confirmed
yesterday in Parliament.
In this
year's Budget in April, the government pledged to
publish the green paper in June,
but Burnham told the House of Commons yesterday that
the policy paper would be put out "in early July".
Care services minister Phil Hope later told the Commons that
publication of the document - which will set out options for the
long-term reform of the funding of adult care - would take place
"in a few weeks".
'Radical'
He said that it would be "radical" and would "spell out what we
will do in future to ensure that people get high-quality care, and
that they have choice and control over that care".
Hope added: "We will make sure that the system is fair,
transparent, simple and affordable for all."
Adult care workforce development body Skills for Care welcomed
the announcement and said the government would conduct a 16-week
consultation on the green paper - longer than the traditional
three-month period.
Chief executive Andrea Rowe said: “As the sector skills council
with responsibility for working with 35,000 adult social care
employers the green paper is a hugely important document for us and
we will play a full part in the sixteen week consultation period to
make sure the voices of employers and 1.5 million care workers are
heard.”
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