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The SCF is a UK-wide cross-party think tank and pressure group promoting debate on adult social care to encourage the Government and all political parties to give the issue more urgent attention. SCF does this by using evidence from the sector itself as well as providing a platform for academics and researchers.
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John Swinney MUST apologise to families of loved ones killed by Covid in care homes
26 October 2026
Exclusive: Scottish Government Ministers have been told that they must apologise to the families of care home residents who died of the deadly virus after a damning UK Covid Inquiry criticised them for a lack of preparedness.
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SNP ‘played Russian roulette with lives of elderly’ probe hears
10 October 2026
Robert Kilgour speaks on the Scottish Government’s handling of the pandemic.
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WHO CARES? Solutions for the Social Care Review
UK think-tank calls for “radical and urgent reform” of Britain’s “broken” social care system
The Social Care Foundation (SCF), a UK-wide think tank, today publishes a wide-ranging report on the state and future of social care in Britain.
Damian Green, a former Conservative deputy prime minister and author of the report, Who Cares? Solutions for the Social Care Review, warns that successive Tory and Labour governments have left social care “in limbo” and that Britain can no longer afford to ignore an unfolding crisis…
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Chair – Rt Hon Damian Green
Founder – Dr. Robert D. Kilgour
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