Dilnot commission Articles

According to the Daily Telegraph, senior government ministers are close to an agreement on capping care costs. They plan to make this a centrepiece announcement in the coalition’s midterm review in January. But if the Telegraph reports are correct, the cap will be set...

For the coalition government, and for any future Labour government, the choices around adult social care funding in England can really be boiled down to two questions. The first is: what is the state going to spend on care and support in future and how will this money...

‘What is the point of the Labour party when there is no money?’ ask the Purple Papers, whose focus is on smarter spending of public money alongside fairer taxation. Their suggestions on both are credible, but the Papers’ transactional view of government may thwart its...

We are all living longer, but the full implications of this are only beginning to dawn on us, and nowhere is this more apparent than with social care. In the UK the number of people aged 65 and over are projected to rise by nearly 50 per cent in the next 20 years,...