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Articles on Social care
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Cost keeps care out of reach for many people in England. Andy Burnham’s National Care Service could learn from how Germany, Norway and Sweden pay for it.
The prime minister wants fixing the crisis in social care to be the defining mission of his premiership.
Public interest technology ensures that public policies are implemented in ways that change people’s lives.
A visit to my friend in a remote Yorkshire village led me into a three-month immersion in one of Britain’s most remarkable forms of social care.
As robots enter social care, Ann Droid raises a bigger question: can machines ease loneliness without replacing human connection?
Canada’s assisted-dying law has expanded since 2016. What can England and Wales learn about safeguards, eligibility and social pressure?
Social care reform has failed in the UK for 25 years. Four international examples show what a lasting fix actually requires.
Social care is not just a funding challenge – it’s a workforce challenge, too.
Any reforms which aim to make services work for people, not profits, must change who owns social care services.
Andy Burnham says his government is going to fix it for good. What would that take?
A gulf is emerging between the party’s populist rhetoric and what it does in practice.
Both sectors are already in crisis – and plans for more curbs on immigration will hit them hard.
Plans to encourage more British workers into the sector have been described as under-funded and ‘years away from delivery’.
The most common understanding of respite care in the UK involves cared-for people staying overnight in a residential facility.
Projections suggest that an extra 480,000 jobs will be needed in the care sector by 2035.
The new Labour government has cut winter fuel payments and dropped a cap on social care costs. What do these changes mean for pensioners?
The new government is facing some very thorny challenges where progress will be tricky – and costly.
Social care reform appears at the end of Labour’s key election promises for the NHS. The manifesto acknowledges the sector’s problems – but what about the solutions?
The Lib Dem manifesto addresses many of the key areas in social care that need reform. But it doesn’t say how the party would pay for them.
Top contributors
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Professor of Health and Social Care, University of Birmingham
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Honorary Research Fellow, City Political Economy Research Centre, City St George's, University of London
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Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of Population Health & NIHR ARC North West Coast Social Care Theme Lead, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Public Policy and Public Management, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Leadership and Management, Edge Hill University
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Professor of Applied Social Science, Durham University
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Associate Supervisor in Child Abuse and Neglect, University of Huddersfield
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Senior Lecturer in Social Work, University of Salford
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Professor of Social Policy, University of Sheffield
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Professor in International Social Policy, University of Southampton
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Visiting Academic, The Open University
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Professor of Citizen Participation, University of East Anglia
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Professor of Health Policy and Management, University of Birmingham
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Lecturer in Work and Organisations, University of Stirling
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Research Professor, Language Technology Lab, University of Cambridge