Social care

Question 1

What will we do for people with learning disabilities?

Answer 1

Make it easier for them to be discharged from hospital, and improve how the law treats them. An additional £74 million over 3 years for community care for people with learning disabilities.

Question 2

What will the government’s approach to social care?

Answer 2

Find a cross-party consensus solution, on the condition that nobody needing care should be forced to sell their home to pay for it.

Question 3

How much extra is social care receiving as of April 2020?

Answer 3

£1 billion every year as of April 2020.

Question 4

What will the government do to the entitlement to leave for unpaid carers?

Answer 4

Extend it to one week. The majority of these carers are women.