Peter Beresford
Join us here on Touchstone on Monday 28 Nov, 12.30pm for an online/offline seminar with Andrew Dilnot, chair of the government’s Commission on Funding of Care and Support. Prof Peter Beresford will also be on the panel. Here he looks at the contradictions of the brief the Dilnot Commission was given.
It is now nearly five months since the Dilnot Commission’s report on the future funding of social care was published. This was the Commission that was given the unenviable task of coming up with proposals for sustainable future social care funding which would gain a significant consensus of support. This at a time of unprecedented cuts in public expenditure under the banner of cutting the public deficit. Small wonder then if the Commission falls short in any way of achieving what seems like a nigh impossible task.
