Care workers, care recipients, think tanks and parliament itself agree that social care reform is urgently needed. But this plan’s lack of detail and insufficient funding suggest that it a ways off.
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The case for introducing a limit on how much people pay for their own care is clear. Figuring out how to calculate that cap, though, is complicated.
Social care has long been the healthcare system’s poor cousin. Will the UK government’s new plans to reform the system succeed where others have not?
Improving care workers’ wages and working conditions will not only boost vaccination rates – it will tackle staffing shortages in care.
Tax rises to pay for the NHS recovery could have focused on those who have profited from the pandemic. Bundling these costs with social care reform, however, risks
Key loopholes in the proposed cap on social care spending mean all assets won’t necessarily be protected.
The government proposes to fix social care and rescue the NHS in one go. The levy it proposes risks only scratching the surface
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Emeritus Professor of Finance and Financial History, The Open University
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Senior Lecturer in Economics and Personal Finance, The Open University
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Professor of Public Policy and Public Management, University of Birmingham
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Research Associate and Deputy Director of Policy at the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Sociology, University of Sheffield
