Head of review says governments asleep over social care

Head of review says governments asleep over social care2 publishers · first seen Tue, 10 Nov 2026 21:45 UTC · updated Wed, 11 Nov 2026 20:15 UTCBaroness Louise Casey, leading a review into social care reform, is expected to criticize successive governments for being 'asleep at the wheel' on social care in a speech on Wednesday. New research commissioned by her team concludes that the social care sector is a 'fundamentally fragmented system' with no-one in charge overall. Casey is also set to label the failings during the Covid-19 pandemic, which saw the virus 'spread like wildfire' in care homes and many older people died without family at their bedsides, as 'a national shame'.Content auto-generated. May contain inaccuracies.

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