SOCIAL care reforms are doomed to failure if the money isn’t there to pay for them, MPs have warned.

The Commons’ health & social care committee issues a report today ahead of the launch of the Casey Commission, which the Labour government hopes will transform the sector.

Instead of focusing on the cost of change, the MPs’ report urges consideration of the costs of inaction, noting that this would include two million people aged 65 and over and 1.5 million working-age people not getting the care they require.