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Long-term funding of adult social care
— first joint report ... Session 2017-19; ninth report of the Health and Social Care Committee 2017-19; seventh report of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee 2017-10: report, together with formal minutes ... | | Corporate Author | Health and Social Care Committee, House of Commons; Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee, House of Commons |
| Publisher | House of Commons, London, 27 June 2018 |
| Pages | 83 pp (HC 2017-19 768) |
| Source | https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmcomloc/768/768.pdf |
| Keywords | Finance [care] ; Services ; Social Services Departments ; Social policy ; Government publications. |
| Annotation | This report by two cross-party House of Commons Committees describes the social care system as "under very great and unsustainable strain", and "not fit to respond to current needs". Ahead of the Government's Green Paper (now expected autumn 2018), it highlights the urgent need to plug a funding gap of some £2.5 billion in 2019/20, before introducing wider funding reforms at local and national levels. The report examines the state of social care (including an increasing reliance on unpaid carers); principles for its funding; options for funding; social care in the wider context of health, public health and housing; and political and public consensus on social care. In principle, the personal care element should be delivered free to everyone who has the need for it; accommodation costs should continue to be paid on a means-tested basis. The report calls for the introduction of a Social Care Premium, either an additional element of National Insurance, or with the premium paid into dedicated not-for-profit social insurance fund. To ensure fairness between the generations, the premium should only be paid by those aged over 40 and extended to those over the age of 65. Key to the Committees' decisions were recommendations made by a Citizens' Assembly on Social Care whose findings are reflected in this report. An annex records notes from a visit to New Deanery Care Home, Braintree. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-180629002 B |
| Classmark | QC: I: PF: TM2: 6OA |
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