England Asks the Public Who Should Pay for Elder Care

Baroness Louise Casey, leading the government's commission into adult social care in England, told BBC Radio Four the system is 'impossible' to navigate and called for a 'reckoning' over how an aging country cares for its people. The commission will now put two questions to the public it has largely avoided answering: who should receive social care, and how it should be paid for.

The consultation follows the government scrapping a planned cap on what any individual would have to spend on care, which left the funding question open. For families already paying out of pocket, the review defers the one decision that would change their budgets: how the bill is split.