Blog post 12/05/2020Camille OungNatasha Curry
The coronavirus crisis has led to a belated focus on social care – highlighting both the sector’s vital role and its struggles. Camille Oung and Natasha Curry look at how the social care provider market has been causing particular difficulties, and how the lessons from Covid-19 can help bring a...
Blog post 11/05/2020Camille OungLaura SchlepperNatasha Curry
This explainer looks at the organisations of various kinds that run residential and nursing care homes and services for adults across the four countries of the UK - many of which are struggling to continue in adverse circumstances.
Blog post 15/04/2020Camille OungLaura SchlepperNatasha Curry
This explainer covers the support that carers, both informal and formal, are able to claim under national or local criteria within each of the four UK countries.
Blog post 15/04/2020Camille OungLaura SchlepperNatasha Curry
This explainer describes the social care workforce in each UK country including recruitment, registration and regulation.
Blog post 15/04/2020Camille Oung
Alongside our new explainers today on social care workers and the support available to them, Camille Oung looks at the lessons that England could learn from how the other UK countries have responded to their own social care workforce problems.
Blog post 18/03/2020Camille OungLaura SchlepperNatasha Curry
This explainer covers how adult social care is funded, assessed and organised in each UK country.
Blog post 18/03/2020Camille OungLaura SchlepperNatasha Curry
This explainer covers the number of state-supported individuals accessing care, the financial and needs criteria that determine access in each country, and the services supported for individuals who meet the means and needs criteria.
Blog post 18/03/2020Camille OungLaura SchlepperNatasha Curry
This explainer analyses the main social care reform activities in each UK country.
Blog post 18/03/2020Camille OungLaura SchlepperNatasha Curry
This explainer looks at what other types of support – such as welfare benefits and access to continuing health care – people with care needs might be eligible for.
Blog post 18/03/2020Camille Oung
As we start a series of explainers describing the social care system in each country of the UK, lead author Camille Oung looks at what social care policy-makers in England can learn from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Reform must come with funding and clarity – and it must secure public sup...