Archive for November, 2012

The economy flounders in and out of recession. The Chancellor’s deficit reduction plan has failed. The coalition parties may or may not be punished at the next election.

The issue of how to address the impact of the UK’s ageing population has been high on the policy agenda since July, when the Office for Budget Responsibility set out the long-term costs in its Fiscal sustainability report.

While social care funding reform appears to be stalling, elsewhere in social care policy, new and interesting developments are emerging off the back of the government’s white paper.