HEALTH Secretary Wes Streeting denied kicking much-needed social care reform into the long grass today as campaigners continued to criticise the timescale of his new commission.

He however hinted that 14 years of Tory austerity and chaos following the publication of the Dilnot commission’s recommendations for the sector in 2011 was to blame.

There is a 25-year history of plans to reform social care being ditched by different governments and Labour this summer came under heavy criticism for scrapping changes to the system proposed by the Dilnot’s report.