Opposition Day Debate: Social care
MPs will debate social care funding on Wednesday 16 November 2016. This will be an Opposition Day debate. This Commons Library briefing page contains Library briefings, independent and select committee reports.
The following briefings, press releases and reports provide relevant background to the debate.
Library and POST briefingsCommons Library Briefing Paper CBP7564, Social care: recent funding announcements and the state of the care home market (England)
Commons Library Briefing Paper CBP7265, Social care: Announcement delaying introduction of funding reform (including the cap) and other changes until April 2020 (England)
Commons Library Briefing Paper SN7106, Social care: how the postponed changes to paying for care, including the cap, would have worked (England)
Commons Library Briefing Paper SN1911, Social care: paying for care home places and domiciliary care (England)
Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology POST-PN-0532, Integrating Health and Social Care
Reports and Select Committee materialAssociation of Directors of Adult Social Services, ADASS Responds to CQC state of care report
Care Quality Commission, State of Care Report 2015/16, 12 October 2016
Communities and Local Government Committee, Adult social care inquiry, ongoing
King’s Fund, Nuffield Trust and The Health Foundation, The Autumn Statement - Joint statement on health and social care, 8 November 2016
Local Government Association, Adult social care funding: 2016 state of the nation report, November 2016
National Audit Office, Adult social care in England: overview, 13 March 2014
National Audit Office, Integrating health and social care, project underway
Public Accounts Committee, Adult social care in England, HC518 2014-15
Press articles"Elderly care crisis looms as ministers accused of living 'in fantasy world'", Daily Telegraph, 11 October 2016
"Social care cuts take English service to tipping point, regulator warns", The Guardian, 13 October 2016
"Philip Hammond pressed on more funding for health and social care", Financial Times, 31 October 2016
"Tories join NHS chiefs in call for increased social care funding", The Observer, 12 November 2016