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Key challenges facing the adult social care sector in England
Key challenges facing the adult social care sector in England
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Contributor(s):
- King's Fund (London, England), issuing body.
- Publication:
- London, England : The King's Fund, September 2018
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Social Welfare -- economics
Social Work -- economics
England
United Kingdom - Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- In the past 20 years there have been 12 White Papers, Green Papers and other consultations about social care in England (Wenzel et al 2018), as well as five independent reviews and commissions. Yet little has changed. Doing nothing--or doing very little--has proved a judicious option for policy-makers. However, the scale of the difficulties facing social care means that doing nothing is no longer an option. Demographic pressures, growing public concern and a system at 'tipping point' all mean that action is essential. As we argue in A fork in the road: next steps for social care funding reform (Bottery et al 2018), full reform may be better value than trying to maintain the current, flawed system. If so, the key choice – the fork in the road – is between a better, fairer, means-tested system and one that is more like the NHS: free at the point of use for those who need it most. As a first step in decision-making, A fork in the road argues that policy-makers need to identify which of the problems facing social care they most want to tackle. This briefing paper is intended to aid that process by identifying and exploring those key challenges. It was originally requested by the Labour Party and has been researched and written independently by The King's Fund, which retained full editorial control. The document breaks down the social care sector into interlinked issues: (1) need and demand; (2) eligibility; (3) funding; (4) market sustainability and fairness; (5) workforce and carers; (6) quality and efficiency; (7) integration with housing, health and the benefits system. Each section features a short analysis of key trends in that area, followed by a summary of the challenges arising from that analysis. The document does not make specific policy recommendations but rather identifies and explores the issues that policy might need to address.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (45 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101769595 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101769595