BBC News - Social care
It is one of the biggest domestic policy issues of our times – where should the balance be struck between the individual and the state’s responsibility for paying for care in old age?
Experts are calling it a “national scandal” with services in parts of the country near collapse and millions of vulnerable people deprived of the care and support they need.
The document (known as a Green Paper) on the future of adult social care in England was first promised for the summer of 2017.
Delays and postponements followed and despite official guidance that it would appear in 2018, the paper remained unfinished and under wraps in Whitehall.
In January the Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock told MPs he intended it to “happen before April”.
But April is not far off and there is no sign of imminent publication.
