This new @SocialCareUK report is most interesting for its call to strip local authorities of responsibility for funding and running adult #socialcare. Quick thread (partly to see if anyone's still using X...) social-care-foundation.com/2…

And now the Casey Commission, which the government set up earlier this year to recommend how best to reform social care in England, has created an environment in which new proposals are actively encouraged.

As I was researching this blog, I was struck by how overseas recruitment was barely mentioned in the last government's 2021 #socialcare white paper in Dec 2021 yet three months later had become THE way of solving the recruitment crisis. 1/2 kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and…

I’m struck that whole sections of the new 10 year health plan are about #socialcare, even if they don’t actually use the words ‘social care’. Here’s a paragraph about the first of four key challenges for the NHS…

Both of these are what #socialcare does, so it’s a little frustrating that there are only 17 mentions of it in the 168 page document. Surely there should be more about how the services will work together? But the health plan was always going to be an NHS plan so it’s no surprise.

Interesting to see in print the government's three 'core objectives' for adult #socialcare. They are sensible and coherent, even if they do skip over the key issue of eligibility. A surprise, though, to see them at all after a year when social care strategy was largely avoided.