As part of a major review, the public will be asked who should pay for social care.

The public will be asked to review the system for who should receive social care and how it should be paid for.

Baroness Louise Casey, who chairs the Social Care Commission for Older Adults in England, described the system as “impossible” to BBC Radio Four’s Today program and called for an “accounting” of how people are cared for.

Baroness Casey says “challenging” discussions need to be had to decide how social care works in an aging country.

The government He had canceled plans. A decision is made to assess the amount of money a person needs to spend on support at home or in care facilities throughout their life, and financial support instead.

Discussions with the public will focus on older people who are “too often overlooked or ignored” and young people who are “losing faith that they will get anything from the state in return for paying”, Casey is expected to address the Local Government Association (LGA) annual conference on Tuesday.

She says that her team will begin this month to “test the views of hundreds of thousands of members of the public to get under the skin of the public” about how adult social care should be paid for and what their role in caring for family members should be.

The public will also be asked what role the NHS should play in social care, with Baroness Casey telling the Today program that in recent years “a lot of care has been moved out of communities and into hospitals”.

Recommendations for families to care for aging and sick relatives alone are “simply unsustainable,” she added.

“Everything is on the table,” Baroness Casey said when asked if she hoped to introduce a publicly funded “national care service” similar to that proposed by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s successor, Andy Burnham.

“I’m of the opinion that we need a national health and care service, the people don’t see the difference and I don’t,” she said.

“What’s happened over time is that the National Health Service has increasingly pulled back what they think is medical and medical only, and basically we’re leaving everyone to worry about what they think is care.”

She previously described the care system as weak and fragmented, with discussions about who pays for what, which can be stressful and confusing for people seeking support.

The independent commission began work last summer.

He has been investigating the problems of the care system in England and is due to present a report this year on how to create a national care service.

Phase two, which looks at how social care is funded in the long term, is not due to be reported until 2028.