The requests comprising: a new national safeguarding board for social care on a statutory legal footing; immediate backing to the scale up of dementia trials; a new full time Dementia Czar; faster progress on the modern service framework for frailty and dementia; and a new fast track passport for people with MND were made by Baroness Casey at the Nuffield Trust Summit today.

A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: ‘We are hugely grateful to Baroness Casey for her tireless leadership and determination to transform social care in this country.

‘As a result, the Government is taking decisive action by establishing a new national safeguarding board to better protect vulnerable adults, fast‑tracking access to care for people with motor neurone disease and accelerating work to transform dementia care and research, including by creating a dementia leadership role to drive forward action.

‘This is about moving faster, cutting through delay and building a social care system that works for everyone.'

Read the full response from the secretary of state here: Letter from the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to Baroness Casey - GOV.UK