Since my last post, the government’s document titled “Building Back Better: Our Plan for Health and Social Care” has now arrived and its taken a week or so to really analyse the proposals. This introduces the new Social Care funding system, broadly based on the findings of the Dilnot Commission of 2011. This is a long post on a complex subject, but this will effect the decisions made by everyone accessing care over the next few years. At some points I refer to the Building

Back at the start of 2015 I was with some representatives of the Social Services team at a local authority that is not local to me. I asked them what steps they had taken to prepare for the new and shortly to be imposed social care reforms. After a long pause they answered that they hoped there might be a change of government at the forthcoming election and that the new scheme would then be dumped. For them it would involve employing around a third more social workers that