内容摘要："Unfortunately the behaviour did tip into sexual assault and I found it was a really difficult time."

"Unfortunately the behaviour did tip into sexual assault and I found it was a really difficult time."

Melanie Williams, president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, said the "timescales are too long".She believes many options on how to reform adult social care are already known and worries that "continuing to tread water until a commission concludes will be at the detriment of people's health and well-being".

The Conservatives welcomed the government's commission but urged ministers to reach a quicker conclusion.Edward Argar, the shadow health secretary, told the BBC's World At One said Streeting should "be brave, be bold, be ambitious, speed up those discussions and try to get to a conclusion and a way forward before 2028".Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said he was "bewildered" by the planned length of the commission and told broadcasters his party "had expected that it could be done and dusted within a year".

About 835,000 people received publicly funded care in 2022, according to the King's Fund. The charity Age UK estimates there are about two million people in England who have unmet care needs - and according to workforce organisation Skills for Care, while 1.59 million people work in adult social care in England, there are currently 131,000 vacancies.Helen Walker, the head of Carers UK, which represents millions of unpaid people who provide care to family members, said families were "under intense pressure and providing more care than ever before".

The government also confirmed an extra £86m would be spent before the end of the financial year in April to help thousands more elderly and disabled people to remain in their homes.

The money is on top of a similar sum announced in the Budget for the next financial year.They can hand out fixed-penalty notices and take alcohol from a person under the age of 18, but must ask a police officer to arrest someone.

Policing Minister Dame Dianna Johnson has said the increase in funding would "allow police forces to kick start" the recruiting process.Asked on the Today programme about forces making cuts, Dame Diana said she wouldn't "pretend it's not challenging for police forces" but overall an "extra £1.1bn was going" into policing.

The money will come alongside a major police shake-up in spring. Forces will be asked to work together more and cut waste, like merging IT systems, Dame Diana said."We recognise that the current way policing is structured is not the most efficient or best way of providing a police service in England and Wales," Dame Diana said.