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Warning Burnham’s social care plan could cost far more than he says, and take ‘decades’ to implement – UK politics live
Statistician Andrew Dilnot says that putting social care on the same footing as health care would cost ‘well in excess of £18bn’ Andy Burnham’s plans to reform social care could cost far more than he is claiming and take “many decades” to be implemented, a leading expert has claimed. Andrew Dilnot told the Today programme this morning that he was “puzzled” by some of what Burnham said yesterday, and he implied that…