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Saving social care
— a fair funding settlement for the future | | Author(s) | Harry Quilter-Pinner, Charlotte Snelling, Andrew Kaye, Kate Jopling |
| Corporate Author | Institute for Public Policy Research - IPPR; Independent Age |
| Publisher | Independent Age, London, November 2017 |
| Pages | 48 pp |
| Source | https://www.independentage.org/policy-and-research/researc... |
| Keywords | Services ; Finance [care] ; Attitude ; Social policy. |
| Annotation | Since the onset of austerity, the cumulative cut to adult social care amounts to 17% of spend since its peak in 2009/10; and there is likely to be a £2.7 billion funding gap by 2020/21. Cuts are having increasingly severe consequences for frontline provision including: significant increases in unmet need; a greater reliance on unpaid carers; strains on quality and safety; and growing gaps in the workforce. This report presents evidence on social care funding and the scale of the funding gap. It considers potential sources of government spending (e.g. winter fuel payments) which could be re-directed; and methods whereby new revenues (National Insurance, wealth taxes) could be raised. The politics of social care funding and reform since 1997 is considered in the context of three focus group conducted by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and Independent Age, to assess people's perceptions of the sufficiency and fairness of future possible changes to the funding of social care. The qualitative findings suggest that people may be wiling to consider paying more tax or (to a lesser extent) forgo benefits. Annexes present the calculations undertaken. Government must come up with a long-term sustainable solution to the funding gap that is sufficient, fair, and politically feasible. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-171114002 B |
| Classmark | I: QC: DP: TM2 |
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