BBC’s Care in the UK 2010 season has started on its You and Yours programme on Radio 4, and will run alongside its Living Longer season on BBC local radio until Friday 3 December.
The series started with a look at the cost of social care and how it might be paid for in the future.
Guest speaker, Andrew Dilnot, chair of the Commission for the Funding of Care and Support, told the BBC the status quo for funding “is not an option”, and expressed his confidence in the commission’s ability to come up with solutions that politicians across the spectrum can support and will “ do what the population as a whole wants to be done.”
The commission was set up by the government earlier this year to come up with options for funding, and has until July 2011 to draw up its recommendations.
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