Can Andy Burnham solve the social care funding crisis?

What's the current situation with adult social care?A few years ago a parliamentary committee memorably summed up the adult social care system in England as “unfair, confusing, demeaning and frightening” – and that remains a good summary. A central problem is the “care lottery” involved in a complicated patchwork of funding rules, means-testing, local-authority decisions and private providers – with families taking up the slack. Whereas a patient with cancer r