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Why Andy Burnham is willing to bet big on social care reform
['Craig Munro']
Metro
Andy Burnham speaks to residents, care workers, volunteers and social care stakeholders during a care home visit in north London (Picture: AP)For the second week of Andy Burnham’s policy lollapalooza, the freshly minted Prime Minister has set as his theme ‘chronic headaches’.
Yesterday the focus was on those pesky NEETs, and today it’s social care in England.
If you don’t have direct experience of English social care – first of all, lucky you.
Burnham said today that social care in England is ‘as unfair as American healthcare’.
Then, there was the effort in 2010 from Gordon Brown’s health secretary, a man called Andy Burnham.