{"id":2247,"date":"2016-06-27T10:05:03","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T09:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/?p=2247"},"modified":"2016-06-27T10:05:03","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T09:05:03","slug":"rebooting-cap-improving-protection-catastrophic-care-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/rebooting-cap-improving-protection-catastrophic-care-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebooting the Cap: Improving protection from catastrophic care costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Options for reforming long-term care funding in England, based on the\u00a0principle of capping people&#8217;s care costs.\u00a0<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The government has postponed\u00a0the \u2018capped cost\u2019 reforms to care funding in England until April 2020.\u00a0Following this announcement, social care campaigners have questioned whether the \u2018capped cost\u2019 reforms will be postponed again before 2020, or scrapped completely.<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 3\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>However, another scenario exists: implementation of an alternative reform package during the current parliament based on the principle of capping people\u2019s care costs. Such an approach would:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Allow the government to meet its political commitment to cap people\u2019s care costs;<\/li>\n<li>Enable a refreshed set of reforms to care funding in England that take account of recent developments in health and social care policy, and avoid downsides to the \u2018capped cost\u2019\u00a0reforms such as complexity and potential unintended consequences;<\/li>\n<li>Address the unfairness and uncertainty that characterizes England\u2019s care funding system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This report explores the options for the government in rebooting the capped cost reforms, arguing that the current pause in implementation presents an opportunity to adapt the reforms to developments in health and social care policy, and address potential downsides to the &#8216;capped cost&#8217; model, such as the risk of unintended consequences.<\/p>\n<p>You can download a copy of <strong>Rebooting the Cap<\/strong>\u00a0here:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Rebooting-the-Cap-Improving-protection-from-catastrophic-care-costs.pdf\">Rebooting the Cap &#8211; Improving protection from catastrophic care costs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Author:<\/strong>\u00a0James Lloyd, Strategic Society Centre<\/p>\n<p><strong>Twitter:<\/strong>\u00a0#capreboot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Options for reforming long-term care funding in England, based on the\u00a0principle of capping people&#8217;s care costs.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[21,91],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Rebooting-the-Cap-scaled.jpg",2560,1700,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Rebooting-the-Cap-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Rebooting-the-Cap-300x199.jpg",300,199,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Rebooting-the-Cap-768x510.jpg",768,510,true],"large":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Rebooting-the-Cap-1024x680.jpg",1024,680,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Rebooting-the-Cap-1536x1020.jpg",1536,1020,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Rebooting-the-Cap-2048x1360.jpg",2048,1360,true],"et-pb-post-main-image":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Rebooting-the-Cap-400x250.jpg",400,250,true],"et-pb-post-main-image-fullwidth":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Rebooting-the-Cap-1080x675.jpg",1080,675,true],"et-pb-portfolio-image":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Rebooting-the-Cap-400x284.jpg",400,284,true],"et-pb-portfolio-module-image":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Rebooting-the-Cap-510x382.jpg",510,382,true],"et-pb-portfolio-image-single":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Rebooting-the-Cap-1080x717.jpg",1080,717,true],"et-pb-gallery-module-image-portrait":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Rebooting-the-Cap-400x516.jpg",400,516,true],"et-pb-post-main-image-fullwidth-large":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Rebooting-the-Cap-2880x1800.jpg",2880,1800,true],"et-pb-image--responsive--desktop":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Rebooting-the-Cap-1280x850.jpg",1084,720,true],"et-pb-image--responsive--tablet":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Rebooting-the-Cap-980x651.jpg",829,551,true],"et-pb-image--responsive--phone":["https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Rebooting-the-Cap-480x319.jpg",406,270,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Trevor Sather","author_link":"https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/author\/trevor-2\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Options for reforming long-term care funding in England, based on the\u00a0principle of capping people&#8217;s care costs.\u00a0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategicsociety.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}