Nearly 2,000 elderly people per day were turned down for care in the two years

View
comments

Nearly 2,000 requests for vital social care have been turned down every single day since Boris Johnson first promised to fix the broken system.

Today is the second anniversary of Mr Johnson standing on the steps of Downing Street on his first day as Prime Minister to claim he had already prepared a plan to reform social care.

But two years on, no plan has been published – and it is not now expected until the autumn at the earliest.

Urging him to get on and publish his proposals, the charity Age UK analysed official statistics which showed that 1.4million requests for care from older people have been turned down since he became PM.

It means that every day, nearly 2,000 people were told the state would not pay for them to have the care and support they desperately need. In some of these cases a pensioner was found by their local council not to meet the tight eligibility criteria set for the social care system and that was the end of it.

In others, the individual was found ineligible but their council then referred them to other services in the hope that they could assist them instead, including their local Age UK.

It had been hoped that Mr Johnson would publish his social care proposals this week.

But the Cabinet pingdemic following Health Secretary Sajid Javid’s positive Covid test put paid to that.

read more from dailymail.....