Cabinet reshuffle: Social care costs need 'urgent' clarification

Jeremy Hunt takes over responsibility

Victoria McKeever
clock • 3 min read

How social care is costed needs to be 'urgently' clarified, Aegon has said, following the addition of these responsibilities to Jeremy Hunt's role as health secretary.

The insurer's pension director Steven Cameron (pictured) said the government needed to ensure social care was now higher up on its priorities, following yesterday's cabinet reshuffle.  In the reshuffle, Jeremy Hunt kept his role as health secretary but was also given the added responsibility of social care policy. The move should "herald a change" in the government's priorities, said Cameron, giving social care a better chance to sit higher up on the agenda alongside Brexit preparations.   He said, however: "Providing high quality social care and finding a sustainable way of fundin...

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