Jane Townson

What Jane Townson has said

• “A fair price for care is not an optional extra - it is the foundation of a sustainable health and social care system.”

  Chief Executive of Homecare Association · Adult social care & reform · 30 Sept 2026 · Home care funding £2bn short of minimum required in England, finds provider body ↗

• “Fix care at home and you free up the GP appointment you cannot get and the hospital bed your family may one day need. Anyone who has seen a well-served self-funder knows what quality care looks like: a trusted local provider chosen by the family, a careworker you know arriving when they said they would, and visits shaped by need rather than a stopwatch.”

  Chief Executive of the Homecare Association · Adult social care & reform · 29 Sept 2026 · What the Homecare Association wants to see from an Andy Burnham government ↗

• “Care providers are already struggling to recruit within the UK. We are deeply concerned the government has not properly considered what will happen to the millions of people who depend on care at home to live safely and independently.”

  Chief Executive of the Homecare Association · Adult social care & reform · 8 Sept 2026 · Concern over plan to halt care worker visas ↗

• “Care providers are already struggling to recruit within the UK. We are deeply concerned the Government has not properly considered what will happen to the millions of people who depend on care at home to live safely and independently. We urge the government to consult with the sector and agree interim measures allowing care providers to recruit sufficient staff. Otherwise, we risk repeating the chaos of 2021, when care shortages increased hospital admissions, delayed hospital discharges and left thousands without the help they needed.”

  CEO of the Homecare Association · Adult social care & reform · 8 Sept 2026 · What does the government’s new Immigration White Paper actually change? ↗

• “We support the government's 10-year health plan. This is the right course but the government must stop pretending it can deliver this plan by focusing only on the NHS and starving social care. The evidence is now overwhelming and ignoring it in this Spending Review would be a catastrophic mistake.”

  CEO of the Homecare Association · Adult social care & reform · 8 Sept 2026 · Everything you need to know ahead of the 2025 Spending Review ↗

• “Providers cannot absorb this. The predictable risks would be reduced access to home care, causing harm to individuals and families, more people stuck in hospital, greater exploitation of workers, and provider failure damaging continuity of care for people – with the bill ultimately landing back on the public purse.”

  Chief Executive of the Homecare Association · Adult social care & reform · 27 Aug 2026 · Reform UK levy on employing overseas staff ‘would harm NHS and social care’ ↗

Where Jane Townson has been quoted

1. Increasing reliance on very small home care services poses risks to provision, warns CQCcommunitycare.co.uk · 30 Sept 2026
2. Home care funding £2bn short of minimum required in England, finds provider bodycommunitycare.co.uk · 30 Sept 2026
3. What the Homecare Association wants to see from an Andy Burnham governmenthomecareinsight.co.uk · 29 Sept 2026
4. Concern over plan to halt care worker visaslgcplus.com · 8 Sept 2026
5. What does the government’s new Immigration White Paper actually change?carehomeprofessional.com · 8 Sept 2026
6. Everything you need to know ahead of the 2025 Spending Reviewcarehomeprofessional.com · 8 Sept 2026
7. Reform UK levy on employing overseas staff ‘would harm NHS and social care’theguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026

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