What is the scale of the social care funding challenge?
How can social care be better, and more fairly, funded? What is the rationale for social care to be funded by local government? What are the general public's expectations for how social care should be funded?
These are among the questions the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee will be asking a panel of witnesses on Tuesday 23 October 2018 as part of its current inquiry into the funding of social care in England.
At 3.35pm the Committee will question:
- Warwick Lightfoot, Head of Economics and Social Policy, Policy Exchange
- Kathryn Petrie, Senior Economist, Social Market Foundation
- Harry Quilter-Pinner, Research Fellow, Institute for Public Policy Research.
Other questions likely to be covered in this session are:
- What principles should underpin the funding of social care?
- How can the cost of social care be distributed fairly?
- Could an insurance-based approach work?
- Why have successive governments avoided addressing the problems of delivering social care?
- What can be done to address the problems in the social care workforce?
This evidence session will start at 3.35pm on Tuesday 23 October 2018 in Committee Room 1 of the House of Lords.
