After decades of political failure, could the solution to Britain's social care crisis be hiding in one of the country's most successful pension reforms — and could it finally give us the money to invest in prevention rather than simply paying for care?
For Episode #121 of the THE health + politics podcast, we turn to what the Prime Minister has made the central proposition of his time in Number 10.
Successive governments have found social care reform incredibly difficult but what if part of the answer has been staring us in the face for years? What if we could take one of the great successes of pensions policy — automatic enrolment — and apply the same principle to social care?
That's the intriguing idea behind a new report from LCP (Lane Clarke Peacock), which proposes automatically enrolling people over 40 into a voluntary social care funding scheme.
Former Minister, Steve Brine, talks to former Pensions Minister - Sir Steve Webb - and Dr Jonny Pearson-Stuttard, Head of LCP Health about their report 'Opt-out Automatic Enrollment - a way out of the social care funding maze' which is gaining great traction among policy makers.
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This episode is produced by Brine Health Ltd and is part of the Acast network.
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