The Coalition Government is to insert clauses supporting the Dilnot recommendations into the care and support bill later this year.
Speaking at the launch of a think tank report: Delivering Dilnot: Paying for elderly care, which he co-authored, Paul Burstow MP (Lib) said: "Andrew Dilnot has constructed a model that touches on the ideologies of all the major parties.
"I have now heard from all the front benchers that they support the principles laid out in the Dilnot report. But the trouble with principles is that we need to translate them into details.
"The good thing today is that the Deputy Prime Minister has confirmed that there will be clauses in the care and support bill later this year.
"This means Parliament will get an opportunity to discuss this in detail.
"I hope we will emerge with a bill all parties can support and pass without controversy. I sense there is good will."
According to the draft of the bill, the main aims of the Bill are:
■modernising care and support law to ensure local authorities fit their service around the needs, outcomes and experience of people, rather than expecting them to adapt to what is available locally
■putting people in control of their care and giving them greater choice, building on progress with personal budgets
■consolidating the existing law by replacing provisions in at least a dozen Acts with a single statute, supported by new regulations and statutory guidance
■simplifying the system and processes, to provide the freedom and flexibility needed by local authorities and social workers to allow them to innovate and achieve better results for people
■giving people a better understanding of what is on offer, to help them plan for the future and ensure they know where to go for help when they need it
