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In brief
- In response to the publication of Shaping the Future of Care Together, the government's Green Paper on reform of social care funding and delivery, in July 2009 The King's Fund produced a series of resources, including analysis and a summary of the options put forward. In November 2009 The King's Fund published a consultation response to Shaping the Future of Care Together (102 kb)
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- There is general agreement that the current system of adult social care funding and delivery requires radical reform. Pressures on services and costs, the challenges of an ageing population, and social and technological changes together mean that current arrangements (outlined in our briefing on Funding adult social care in England (125 kb)) are not sustainable. Dissatisfaction has grown.
- In 2008, at a meeting at The King’s Fund the Prime Minister launched a debate on the future funding of care and support. This recognised the key contribution of The King’s Fund through the Wanless Social Care Review, which assessed social care spending requirements for older people to 2025, and the work of Caring Choices, a coalition of 15 organisations led by The King’s Fund that sought to engage the public in debate about how social care should be funded and provided.
- Subsequently the government committed to publishing a Green Paper on options for reforming the funding and delivery of the care and support system. Publication of the Green Paper, in July 2009, marked the beginning of a formal public consultation process.
- The King’s Fund has begun a new programme of work that will seek to maintain the momentum for change, critically evaluate the options set out in the Green Paper and generate fresh policy thinking to help develop a new settlement for social care. Prior to the publication of the Green Paper, we set out the key tests that any new settlement needed to meet (65 kb) .
