Reforming funding is vital, but changing the nature of social care, how it is delivered, and what it can achieve is a far more substantial challenge

Melanie Henwood discusses the Prime Minister’s plan to reform funding for adult social care through an increase in National Insurance. She writes that the government needs to be ambitious in addressing the support needs of people of all ages, and also needs to invest in prevention, recovery, and reablement services that reduce the need for residential care.