The social care funding fiasco

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Chapter 6 in The Future of Social Care, 2023, pp 80-95 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The history of UK social care since the 1980s has been one of a failure to fix its funding. The neoliberal politics of the period have meant that there has been a more general reluctance to increase public expenditure in this context and instead increasingly the expectation has been that the costs should be borne by the individual, as efforts to increase the contribution of the private sector have failed. Two case studies offer the reader close-up accounts of what this means in reality. So far proposals for funding reform have been remarkably unproductive; with a preoccupation with unsuccessful workarounds and the double whammy of the inadequacy of social care and the pulling back of welfare states leaving more needs unmet.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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