Election 2024 Manifesto round-up | Labour: Community Care

Commitments include to undertake a programme of reform to create a National Care Service for England

The Labour Party has today launched its manifesto ahead of the General Election on 4 July 2024.

Community care-related commitments contained in Change include to -

• Reform social care by -
  • undertaking a programme of reform to create a National Care Service that is underpinned by national standards to deliver consistency of care across the country;
  • ensuring that services are locally delivered, with a principle of 'home first' that supports people to live independently for as long as possible;
  • developing local partnership working between the NHS and social care on hospital discharge;
  • enhancing partnership working across employers, workers, trade unions and government and establishing a Fair Pay Agreement in adult social care; and
  • building consensus for the longer-term reform needed to create a sustainable National Care Service by exploring how best to manage and support an ageing population; how integration with the NHS can be secured; how to best support working-age disabled adults; and how to move to a more preventative system.

• Support families of people needing care by -
  • guaranteeing the rights of those in residential care to be able to see their families.

• Improve mental health support by -
  • bringing down waiting times for mental health support and ensuring interventions happen earlier;
  • recruiting an additional 8,500 new staff by the end of the next Parliament to treat children and adults needing mental health support;
  • providing open access to mental health services for children and young people in every community through a network of new 'Young Futures hubs'; and
  • modernising mental health legislation to give patients greater choice, autonomy, enhanced rights and support, and ensure everyone is treated with dignity and respect throughout treatment.

For more information, see Change: Labour Party Manifesto 2024 from labour.org.uk

See also the Labour Party's commitments in relation to: Welfare Rights; Housing; and Employment.

NB - manifestos from the range of main parties include: Conservative: Clear Plan, Bold Action, Secure Future | Green: Real hope, real change | Labour: Change | Liberal Democrat: For a Fair Deal | Scotland: Alba: Yes to Scottish Independence | Scottish Conservative and Unionist: Focused on your priorities | Scottish Labour: Our National Recovery Plan | Scottish National Party: A future made in Scotland | Wales: Plaid Cymru: For fairness, for ambition, for Wales | Welsh Labour: Change | Northern Ireland: Alliance: Leading Change | Democratic Unionist Party: Making Northern Ireland Work | Sinn Fein: Strong Leadership, Positive Change | Social Democratic and Labour Party: An Election for Change

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