Forsyth: Lord Forsyth and Unfairness

forsyth: A further 7bn a year should be spent to extend NHS-style free personal care to all by 2025, to be paid for out of general taxation, according to The Guardian. The chair of the cross-party committee, Lord Forsyth, said it was time for government to stop faffing around and properly fund a system that was riddled with unfairness and left people enduring real suffering. The Lords economic affairs committee said this would restore access and quality of social care services in England to pre-austerity levels and relieve unsustainable pressure on unpaid family carers. Our recommendations will cost money, but social care should be a public spending priority, he said. The outgoing Tory chair of the Local Government Association, Lord Porter, recently warned that vulnerable people would die as a result of the continuing failure to properly fund social care. The committee's report comes amid growing concern at the state of adult social care after a decade of austerity. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.