Our umbrella organisation, the Care Association Alliance, has published its first policy paper, on Adult Social Care Funding Reform alongside a storyboard highlighting key facts about adult social care funding. Together they lay out key issues regarding:

• 01 The Case for Reform
• 02 Core Proposal
• 03 The Existing Funding Model
• 04 A National Funding Settlement
• 05 Financing Individual Contributions
• 06 International Lessons
• 07 National Tariff Design
• 08 The Role of Local Authorities
• 09 Conclusion

with an appendix on Local Authority expenditure data

Read more here

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