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Think tanks, academia, improvement and public opinion

This section provides reflections on a decade of Care Act delivery and the state of adult social care from a diverse group of thought leaders from renowned national institutions. Contributors include: Simon Bottery (The Kings Fund), Natasha Curry (Nuffield Trust), Professor Jon Glasby, Dr Laura Griffith (University of Birmingham), Hiba Sameen, Lucinda Allen (Health Foundation), Carmen Colomina, Deborah Rozansky (Social Care Institute for Excellence) and Dr Margaret Blake (IPSOS).

This section provides reflections on a decade of Care Act delivery and the state of adult social care from a diverse group of thought leaders from renowned national institutions. As well as analysing the extent to which the aims of the legislation have been achieved, contributions also offer valuable international comparisons from Germany and Japan, and draw out excellent practice that already exists in England. The crucial element of public opinion also features in this section, confirming the ongoing challenge of limited public understanding of social care.

Simon Bottery

Simon Bottery: Senior Fellow, The Kings Fund

The main failing of the 2014 Care Act was that it did not foresee the future. Would anyone have expected that central government funding for councils would fall by 55 per cent between 2010/11 and 2019/20, with a 29 per cent real-terms reduction in spending power?

Natasha Curry

Natasha Curry: Deputy Director of Policy, Nuffield Trust

Unhelpful framing of what social care is in public debate has compounded financial pressures and hampered reform. Debate has too often reduced social care to a narrow caricature of residential homes for older people concerned about selling their property to pay for care.

Highlighted pages

The Care Act 2014: Ten years on from Royal Assent

In Control: set up by recipients of health and social care

In Control aims to support to help people live an ordinary life and will not support any action that results in institutional living and to advance the education of the public; and seeks to ensure that people are included and that their human rights are upheld. This case study forms part of the What Good Looks Like report on people with a learning disability and autistic people.