Baroness Louise Casey

You know, we have got a... As much as we possibly can, we've gone into every single... When you do bits of work like this, you go as broad as you possibly can and you look in every single cupboard and you try and pick out whatever's in that cupboard and make sense of it.

And we've had a bloody good go at this in the last 12 months.

So I defy anybody...

this time round, to try and stop us reforming social care.

I think we've just got to make sure, regardless of who is in Downing Street or number 11, that this time round it's a no-fail operation.

And because I looked at 22 different commissions, white papers, green papers, all proper commissions,

Andrew Dillnott.

There have been 22 just since 1997.

And we've gone into every single one of them and we've looked at the politics of why they were commissioned, what they found and why they weren't implemented.

Because I think they were good people.

And so if they couldn't get it over the line, then why would we be able to get it over the line?

And I think we're just assembling the whys of that.

And I also think it's time for us to recognise the fact that we have a growing elderly population.

That is a good thing, but we as a society have to think differently.

So I have taken Andrew's work.

We are more than dusting it down and looking at it in terms of on the financial side, what would you do about it?

And he identified a problem.

He came up with what he thought was some solutions at the time.

They might well still be the solutions.

But the thing about this is that the person I met that had been left in bed and deconditioned, i.e.