Insurers respond to Labour’s social care plan
Insurers have reacted cautiously to Labour’s health secretary Wes Streeting’s recommendation that Dame Louise Casey’s commission into the reform of social care consider using insurance to fund costs.
Royal London’s director of policy Jamie Jenkins agreed that insurance is almost certainly part of the solution to the funding problem in social care, as most people are unlikely to have sufficient
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