Andy Burnham told Laura Kuenssberg on BBC Panorama (July 27) that the "social care system is broken". Thirty years on from the first understanding of the escalating scale of social care challenges, governments have observed, avoided, ordered reviews or just fiddled at the margins. Now Andy Burnham says he is willing to invest his political capital in reform of social care "as quickly as I can". Dismantle the dysfunctional divides between health care and social care in responsibility and funding, between NHS or local council. It is worth noting that Suffolk County Council Adult Social Care was rated ‘good’ when inspected recently in January 2026.Who pays, against what criteria, how much and when?