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Baroness Pitkeathley (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 24 June 2025

Debate

Social Care

Contribution

My Lords, the Government have rightly adopted a preventive approach as far as the NHS is concerned. Does my noble friend agree that it would be a good idea to apply this to social care as well? To take, for example, unpaid carers—I can never resist the temptation to remind your Lordships that they save the nation £192 billion a year—if you put in a small amount of support for those unpaid carers at an early point in their caring journey, you can often prevent a crisis arising. It surely makes very sound economic sense to adopt this preventive approach to social care.

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