Caring For Our Future: Progress Report on Funding Reform

Cm. 8381

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Department of Health

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TSO (The Stationery Office)

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The Government agrees that the principles set out in a 2011 report should form the basis for any new funding model, reports 'Caring For Our Future: Progress Report on Funding Reform (Cm. 8381)'.

The Commission on Funding of Care and Support, chaired by Andrew Dilnot, made a number of recommendations in the report 'Fairer Care Funding: the Report of the Commission on Funding of Care and Support' (listed below) in 2011.

Two key proposals were defined in the report:

(i) the Government should put a cap on the lifetime care costs that people face, and raise the threshold at which people lose means-tested support; and

(ii) there should be universal access to deferred payments for people in residential care.

There remain important questions and trade-offs to be considered about how those principles should be applied in a reformed system: the level of the cap; changes to the cap over time; who benefits and who should pay?

However, the Government will introduce a universal system of deferred payments for residential care (from April 2015), and will also introduce a national eligibility threshold for adult care and support in England (also April 2015).

The Government is also committed to providing a clear, universal and authoritative source of national information about the care and support system.

Chapters in this paper include:

• the need for funding reform;

• stakeholder views on reform;

• the Commission's recommendations and how the Government is responding;

• the principles of funding reform;

• the benefits and costs of the Commission's model; and

• conclusions and next steps.

Extent	38 pages	ISBN	9780101838122
Size	A4	Price	£16.00
Format	Paperback	Published	11 Jul 2012
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