Our new Prime Minister wants to finally reform social care, correcting what he called ‘a dereliction of duty’ by a generation of politicians. Prime Minister Andy Burnham meets residents after his speech at a care home in north LondonCare home funding and adult social care is a mess. But the elephant in the room is that social care reform hasn’t happened yet due to potentially huge costs that Britain can’t afford. If a 10 per cent social care tax replaced inheritance tax, as Mr Burnham has previously mused, it would mean all estates lose an arguably manageable slice of money. But introduce a social care tax on top of inheritance tax and a sizeable chunk of estates could be double taxed.