Counting the cost of care reform

June 25, 2012

Tomorrow, the Strategic Society Centre is holding a public debate in Parliament with the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Social Care. The event asks the question fundamental to the ongoing debate around how to pay for care: can the Treasury combine deficit reduction with reform of social care funding?

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Author: James Lloyd, Strategic Society Centre

Publisher: Public Finance

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