ADULT SOCIAL CARE

How will government square the social care charging reforms circle?

Caroline Abrahams says that if the Government gets its way then its 'cap' on catastrophic care costs can no longer be regarded as ‘progressive’. Unless the Treasury changes its mind ‘something will have to give’.

Geeks like me certainly noticed when Boris Johnson said he would ‘fix the crisis in social care' in July 2019.

We had to wait a long time to find out what this really meant, but eventually in September 2021 the Prime Minister announced the introduction of a ‘cap' on catastrophic care costs from Autumn 2023, modelled broadly on the recommendations of Sir Andrew Dilnot's 2010 Commission.

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