Money is clearly critical to the care system; but that is not the whole story. None of the structural problems of the system are being looked at or reformed. We are still left with social care being farmed out to private firms and inadequately monitored, which leaves those in need of care very vulnerable.
The distinction between social and medical care in the community needs to go, so that, whatever people's needs there is a level playing field: all get treated the same and do not have to go through tortuous processes to prove the nature of their needs. Believe me, you do not need that sort of rubbish at a difficult time in your life.
We just need to do it differently and take a leaf out of some of the Nordic nations who actually value their weaker members and see caring for them fairly as a priority.
Raising more money is not the whole story - it is what is done with that money that matters, and none of that has been addressed.