Members consider the future of adult social care

Debate

Baroness Andrews (Labour), chair of the Lords Select Committee on Adult Social Care, put forward the debate.

This was a general debate. During debates, members put their experience to good use to discuss current issues and draw the government's attention to concerns.    

Members speaking   

Members speaking in the debate included:

• Lord Bradley (Labour), honorary fellow of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
• Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie (Conservative), chief executive of Cerebral Palsy Scotland
• Baroness Jolly (Liberal Democrat), chair of adult learning disabilty charity HFT (formerly Home Farm Trust)
• Baroness Tyler of Enfield (Liberal Democrat), non-executive director of Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

Members spoke about a range of subjects. Opening the debate, Baroness Andrews said:

'At any one time about 10 million adults of all ages come into contact with adult social care. When it matters so much to so many people, we are bound to ask why, as a whole, it has been out of sight and off the public radar for so long?'

Lord Markham, Parliamentary Under-Secretary in the Department of Health and Social Care, responded on behalf of the government:

'This whole debate shows that it is vital not just to the well-being of our people that we have a good system of social care but to our health service in improving the whole flow of the system.'

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