Why is Andy Burnham talking about fixing England’s social care system?

Andy Burnham has signalled he would overhaul England’s social care system this year if he became prime minister, the biggest indication yet of what his main priorities would be.

Work is already under way on updating the social care system under Keir Starmer, but Burnham has suggested he would seek more radical and urgent change.

He is not the first to have made such a claim, with several former Labour and Conservative prime ministers attempting to tackle the complex issue of the social care crisis in England – so what are the key issues and how much could they cost to fix?