This week we ask how should we think about reforming social care, how should we pay for it, and what can we learn from other countries?
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Ageing populations, rising care costs and COVID-19 have placed significant strain on an already struggling social care sector. Since assuming office in 2019, the Prime Minister has repeatedly promised to present a comprehensive plan to reform social care, the latest in a long line of governments to promise to tackle the issue.
So, how should we think about reforming social care? How should we pay for it? And what can we learn from other countries?
This week Paul speaks with Andrew Dilnot, Warden of Nuffield College Oxford and author of the Dilnot Report on Social Care, set up under David Cameron's coalition government, and Natasha Curry, Deputy Director of Policy at the Nuffield Trust and expert on social care.
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Paul has been the Director of the IFS since 2011. He is also currently visiting professor in the Department of Economics at University College London.
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Warden Nuffield College, University of Oxford
Deputy Director of Policy Nuffield Trust
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