government and policies that would help to reform social care because of all the problems that we are facing. we need properfunding because we have to remember that social care looks after everyone. it is notjust one section of society. we never know when we re going to need social care ourselves so we do need social care ourselves so we do need to have a good sustainable service that can cope with everybody that has their needs of social care so we do need to be able to recruit people, value our certain workers. brexit also hasn t helped. we need to put social care workers on the shortage occupation list. there has been a movement so that we can bring in senior carers however that does not help the carers who are on the ground doing the work, at the lower levels. we need those carers and to
homes, potentially, in orderto in england having to sell their own homes, potentially, in order to fund social care. there should be some sort of cap, a maximum amount over a lifetime that we would have to pay towards our social care and if that is put in place, how is it funded? it will be expensive. this morning i have been looking at some of the promises that borisjohnson has made. he said he would try to sort out social care and in the coming days we may get some sort of plan on that. he also said that he wanted a cross party consensus and that he would not put up income to, vat or national insurance and it is thought that national insurance could be put up that national insurance could be put up to pay for it. national insurance is a tax on earning not paid above the state pension age or state earnings or on investment income and it means that some critics are saying that, well, is this fair? is it fair that younger people and also relatively poorer people will bear a
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be paying them a proper wage. and so however the government policy comes, if we have a social care reform suggestions coming out this week, i dare say that will not be immediate but what we need is immediate help as well as long, sustained help. about! as well as long, sustained help. and clearl the as well as long, sustained help. and clearly the money needs to come from somewhere. the government is suggesting it could come from national insurance contributions, raising the contribution, a tax on our earnings. this is that not enough? you think that is where the money should be coming from? it depends where the government believes they should have the money from to pay for the social care however it is notjust about money. it is about the way that social care is perceived as well. so where that money comes, i don t know. but we need money into the sector to be able to look into our most look