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"At the end of March 2010, a White Paper on adult social care was published called “Building the National Care Service”. This was the result of the Big Care Debate and a Green Paper published in July 2009. Ahead of the publication of the Dilnot Commission’s report on the funding of care and support, I thought it would be useful to revisit the key pledges made in the White Paper, concentrating mainly on the financial proposals it contained."
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My post on the Dilnot Commission.
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Lovely post from @georgejulian on the Dilnot Commission.
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Useful summary post from Fighting Monsters.
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"Today sees the end of the Dilnot commission's call for evidence and responses are flooding in from interested parties."
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"Care funding commission chief Andrew Dilnot (pictured, left) has been urged to give strong backing to insurance products for people with immediate care needs, after a report predicted this industry had the potential to benefit thousands of more people."
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"The likely recommendations of the Dilnot commission on reforming the funding of long-term care are starting to take shape with around six weeks to go until it reports in July."
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"The Dilnot commission on social care funding is set to recommend that individuals should have to pay no more than £50,000 with the taxpayer picking up the rest."
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"The Dilnot commission on care funding will recommend an overhaul of the main eligibility frameworks for adult social care in order to end the postcode lottery for services, it has signalled. It also looks set to propose the retention of attendance allowance, a move that will prove popular with older people's charities who vigorously opposed the previous Labour government's plans to scrap the benefit and roll it into the social care system."
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"State-funded free personal care for all has been ruled out by the commission tasked with reforming the care funding system, on the basis that it is unsustainable."
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"Fewer than one in 10 people is putting money aside for care and support in old age, according to a survey that shows the huge scale of the challenge facing policy-makers in reforming the care funding system. Almost half those surveyed still think the government should cover all care costs for elderly people, despite repeated assertions by all the main political parties that people must make a substantial contribution if they have the means to do so. The survey, by ICM for housing and care charity Anchor, demonstrates the difficult task that ministers will have if they move to reform the funding system for England and Wales in line with the likely recommendations of an official review due to report next week."
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Excellent analysis from Richard Humphries about the four key challenges for change in social care, ahead of Dilnot.
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Coverage of Age UK's Care Crisis research.
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General narrative on the care crisis from Age UK.
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Age UK analysis of the care crisis.
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Polly Toynbee's opinion piece on social care and Dilnot. Factually incorrect in the places where it isn't lifted directly from an Age UK report, but still a useful general narrative.
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Interview in, erm, the Daily Mail with Andrew Dilnot: "The Daily Mail recently revealed that Mr Dilnot was considering imposing a cap on the amount people have to pay for residential care of somewhere in the region of £50,000 – with the state picking up the rest of the tab."
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David Brindle's excellent analysis of Dilnot, the politics around it and what it might mean.
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The Times suggests there may be a cap of up to 30% of the value of a property recommended by Dilnot.
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"Legislation to cap the amount people have to pay for care in old age is likely next year, with the Dilnot Commission on social care funding set shortly to recommend that individuals should not have to pay more than a maximum of £50,000. After that the taxpayer would pick up the bill, regardless of whether people were being cared for at home or in a residential unit."
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Useful summary page on Kings Fund's website of its work on social care.
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