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We all know the crisis in UK social care damages lives and the economy: it’s the Treasury we must convince | Layla Moran

There are real costs to not tackling this grievous problem. But, as we report today, the data we need doesn’t seem to exist

• Layla Moran is chair of the health and social care select committee and MP for Oxford West and Abingdon

“The NHS undoubtedly saved my life, but social care helps me live it.” That is what a participant at a roundtable event on social care told me recently.

Last October, the health and social care select committee I chair resolved to investigate the cost of successive governments’ inaction on reforming adult social care. Of course, the human cost to individuals in terms of unfulfilled lives is a weighty moral argument – reason enough in itself to reform the sector, as the government has promised to do, starting with an independent commission led by Louise Casey.

Layla Moran is chair of the health and social care select committee and MP for Oxford West and Abingdon

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