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A fork in the road: next steps for social care funding reform
— the costs of social care funding options, public attitudes to them - and the implications for policy reform | | Author(s) | Simon Bottery, Michael Varrow, Ruth Thorlby, Dan Wellings |
| Corporate Author | Health Foundation; King's Fund |
| Publisher | Health Foundation, London, May 2018 |
| Pages | 56 pp |
| Source | https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/sites/default/files/2018-05/A... |
| Keywords | Services ; Finance [care] ; Social policy ; Attitude ; Consumer ; England. |
| Annotation | This paper pulls together new financial modelling, public perceptions work and policy analysis to identify the problems with adult social care in England and outline options for its reform. Section 1 identifies how the problem with social care has developed, noting policy developments since 1997. Section 2 suggests options for reform, their costs and considerations. Section 3 looks at public attitudes to social care funding reform; and Section 4 considers policy implications for social care reform. The paper does not aim to make firm proposals or recommendations, but rather to identify and make explicit the advantages and disadvantages, impact and consequences of adopting one option over another. It concludes that reforming the current system will be expensive, but that if reform is chosen, England is now at a clear 'fork in the road' between a better means-tested system and one that is more like the NHS, free at the point of use for those who need it. (RH) |
| Accession Number | CPA-180518001 B |
| Classmark | I: QC: TM2: DP: WY: 82 |
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