What used to be a national social care crisis is long gone. We are now in the midst of a social care fiasco – and people are suffering as a result.

Decades of rising pressures and dwindling budgets, and now the Government's backtrack on funding earlier this week, have left social care on its knees. Every review, every think-tank, every commentator points to the same thing: social care is in vital need of attention and – crucially – cash.