Social care remains the UK’s ‘Cinderella service’ because our politicians lack nerve and ideas, writes paulwaugh
had been unabashed in his own evidence about the reason social care is perennially ignored: it’s seen as simply too complex a policy issue and too fraught a political issue for any government to truly sort it.
“The solutions are currently unpalatable to the political system, which I would suggest is a reflection of being unpalatable to the broader taxpayer and society,” he said. The King’s Fund does highlight that there has never been a proper debate with the care sector and public about the trade-off and choices about how to balance individual protection from costs with the need to increase spending on our ageing population.
The think0tank tells me “there is a space between the individual paying everything and the state paying everything which involves the state effectively pooling the risk that individuals face”. That could be through a social insurance model or changes to taxation.
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