Financing Social Care
The pandemic has highlighted long-known vulnerabilities of the social care sector and amplified the urgency for reforming its funding system.
The pandemic has highlighted long-known vulnerabilities of the social care sector and amplified the urgency for reforming its funding system.
Thursday 16 June 2022 | 1 hour 15 minutes 57 seconds
A decade after the Dilnot Report called attention to the fact that the finance of social care had been ignored for too long and that the system was "confusing, unfair and unsustainable", the government announced an overhaul to the way adult social care is financed in England.
The government’s proposal, to increase finance for social care through an increase in National Insurance contributions (NICs), has attracted a range of diverging opinions. The speakers will debate current proposals and possible alternatives.