Social care system changes urged
Author: Local Government Chronicle |
The imminent social care green paper will include insurance-based options as well as a minimum level of care support in its proposals, the King’s Fund has predicted.
And the thinktank warned that any successful new system would need to end the current “postcode lotteries” and be built to last for at least a generation.
The Department of Health is due to unveil its proposals for radically changing the way social care is funded later this month, in the face of widespread acknowledgement that the current system is unsustainable.
Richard Humphries, King’s Fund senior fellow in social care, said it was “incredibly unfortunate” that the pinnacle of the funding debate had been reached during a recession.