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Time to find some model citizens

To face up to the social care ‘graph of doom’ we need to encourage community led social care. Ewan King and Dr Henry Kippin explain.

Barnet Council's ‘graph of doom' has become legend within local government in recent years, and most other authorities by now have their own, equally terrifying version.

From Cumbria to Cambridge these factors are creating demands on the system by 2020 that is likely to outstrip its ability to meet them: an ageing society; the impacts of austerity and recession; and sometimes a failure to join up health and social care provision.

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