Rather than free care for all, funding should concentrate on better care for the less well-off, says David Lipsey
Alan Walker is right to condemn the “low priority given to social care compared with healthcare” (Letters, 14 August). And yet he praises as “brilliant” the job done by the Sutherland royal commission.
The Sutherland commission was a disaster for social care. It wanted huge sums spent on providing care free for the better off, without tackling the real problem as set out in its minority report, which I penned: wholly inadequate spending on the provision of social care, and in particular on the systemic underpayment of our wonderful social care workers.
