Tomorrow, the Strategic Society Centre is holding a public debate in Parliament with the All-Party...
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Misguided on means testing
Wednesday saw many in the social policy world left blind-sided by the announcement from...
Dodging Dilnot
Reform of long-term care funding in England has been overdue for at least a decade. Before the...
The potential effect of an ‘economic war’
It really started in the summer of 2008, when Lehman Brothers collapsed and the global financial...
Pensions without tiers
The Chancellor’s Budget announcement that a new single-tier state pension will be introduced early...
Pilot Error
With the cross-party talks on social care funding reform now under way, there is at least one...
Pensions: Assessing the cost of auto-enrolment delay
Just occasionally, it is possible to do a piece of research that tests very precisely the...
Dilnot and the costs of long-term care
Actuaries were naturally excited by the final report of the Dilnot Commission on Funding of Care...
Political scientists and the care conundrum
Few, if any, policy areas have as been neglected by political scientists as social care funding,...
An OBR for social care?
The English social care system is characterised by unmet need, excessive rationing by local...