Economic Affairs Committee
Social care funding: time to end a national scandal
7th Report of Session 2017-19 - published 4 June 2019 - HL Paper 392
Contents
Summary of conclusions and recommendations
Table 1: Estimated breakdown of gross adult social care funding, 2016/17
Box 1: Eligibility for public funding
Box 2: New sources of public funding
Political challenges of reform
Box 3: Government reviews and attempted reforms of social care funding since 1999
Figure 1: Adult social care spending, 2010/11 to 2017/18 (adjusted for inflation)
Rising demand for adult social care
Table 2: Numbers of unpaid carers in England by amount of care provided, 2011
The ‘condition lottery’ and catastrophic costs
Self-funders, local authority fees and market sustainability
Public versus private individual funding
Box 4: Free personal care in Scotland
Hypothecated versus general taxation
Box 5: Mandatory social insurance in Germany and Japan
National versus local responsibility
Appendix 1: List of Members and declarations of interest
Appendix 4: Private meeting with care workers
Evidence is published online at https://www.parliament.uk/social-care-funding-in-england/publications and available for inspection at the Parliamentary Archives (020 7219 3074).
Q in footnotes refers to a question in oral evidence.