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Successive Governments Asleep at the Wheel on Social Care, Warns Baroness Casey

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Baroness Casey says successive governments failed to plan adult social care deliberately.

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Self-funding care users pay an average of 40% more than council-arranged rates.

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The Care Quality Commission was compared to a spectator at a car crash.

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Final commission recommendations are due to be published next summer.

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