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Using Social Science to Regulate People, Business and Technology
A “practitioner’s handbook” on the role of social science in regulation and policy.
Archive for November, 2011
Blogs & Media
Dilnot and the costs of long-term care
Actuaries were naturally excited by the final report of the Dilnot Commission on Funding of Care and Support. It is rare that major public policy proposals are so clearly built around observations on the nature of risk and uncertainty.
Blogs & Media
Political scientists and the care conundrum
Few, if any, policy areas have as been neglected by political scientists as social care funding, despite a long-running policy debate on how to fund the long-term care of older people in England, which most recently gained some prominence with the final report of the Dilnot Commission on Funding of […]
Blogs & Media
An OBR for social care?
The English social care system is characterised by unmet need, excessive rationing by local authorities, over-burdened carers and families facing up to ‘catastrophic costs’. However, the resources required to fix these issues are relatively modest compared to the resources of the state, society and – in particular – the older […]
Publications
Politics and the Care Conundrum
What are the underlying political drivers of England’s long-term care funding problem.