Baroness Louise Casey will lead a four-year, cross-party task force into the future of social care, the public health minister has revealed. Andrew Gwynne welcomed the announcement, describing Ms Casey as "the foremost public sector reformer of our time". Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Today the government is announcing an independent inquiry to be led by Baroness Casey.
00:08Of course, Baroness Casey is, I would argue, the foremost public sector reformer of our time and
00:15she's been charged with looking at how we shape a social care service that isn't just fit for
00:21the present day, that isn't just future-proofed for the years ahead, but for the decades ahead.
00:27The transformation that we want to see to improve those outcomes and the standard of living,
00:34the quality of life for elderly people and for adults with disabilities.
00:41And this gives us an opportunity, I would argue, for root and branch reform to change the way we
00:47deliver social care aligned with the changes we want to see to our NHS as well, that shift from
00:54hospital to community, from analogue to digital and from sickness to prevention. They aren't just
01:02three big shifts that are relevant to the NHS, they're relevant to how we deliver social care as well.