Social care minister calls for return to multi-generational households | David Brindle [#PFD]

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Social care minister calls for return to multi-generational households | David Brindle
// The Guardian

Alistair Burt says the state cannot fund all old-age care and a new partnership between the state and the people is needed

For someone who thought his ministerial days were over, Alistair Burt, 60, appears undaunted at having been handed one of the broadest portfolios in government. It’s also one of the trickiest: as minister for community and social care, his responsibilities sit at the crunch point where the needs of an ageing society collide with the constraints of taxpayer-funded care services.

“I’m no financial genius: that’s why I don’t work across the road,” says Burt, talking with typical self-deprecation in his Whitehall office, opposite the Treasury, about the challenge of meeting long-term care costs. “But I have no hesitation in saying I don’t think the state is going to be able to cover this. This needs a new bargain and partnership between the people and the state. The earlier that partnership begins, the better.”

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