Free Care At Home For 'All Who Need It' (UK)

Free care at home for 'all who need it': Brown pledges £670million but critics say it won't help everyone

By JAMES CHAPMAN and DANIEL MARTIN
18th November 2009

Gordon Brown today pledges to introduce free care for 400,000 of the neediest old people in their own homes as he launches a last-ditch political fightback.

With Labour flatlining in the polls, the Prime Minister will put social care for the elderly at the centre of the party's last Queen's Speech today before a General Election expected next spring.

Mr Brown, setting out his plans in an article for the Daily Mail, said the older generation were owed a 'debt of dignity'. 

He said creating a new 'National Care Service' would be the 'first domestic priority' of a fourth-term Labour Government.

The flagship legislative measure in today's package is a Personal Care at Home Bill, setting out a £670million scheme to improve services for those who need it most, regardless of their income or savings.

Abridged
SOURCE:      The Daily Mail, UK
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