The government will expand the social care fair pay agreement into a “bigger reform” and speed up the Casey review into fixing social care. ‘Lifting up’ social care workforceMr Burnham also announced the government plans to turn the fair pay agreement on social care, announced by Sir Keir Starmer’s government, into a “bigger reform to improve the social care workforce” and “lift it closer to NHS standard”. “We will not get the care service we all want until we improve the strength and the capability of care at the very front of the service. And that means lifting up the social care workforce as best we possibly can,” he said. Acknowledging the long history of failed attempts to find a solution to social care, Mr Burnham said: “Yes, I have been here before.