Social care Green Paper delayed again in Spring Statement

The government has once again delayed making a decision on social care policy. In his Spring Statement to the House of Commons, chancellor Philip Hammond said that a review of social care will come as part of a departmental spending review in the summer. In the March 2017 Budget, the Government said it would publish a Green Paper on social care €“ making a manifesto commitment to it in that year’s subsequent General Election. Hammond then promised in 2018 he would shortly publish the green paper, which would include €˜difficult decisions’. According to Age UK, the date of publishing has been delayed six times. It