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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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What should Andy Burnham do now for social care?
22 July 2026
Andy Burnham’s determination to lift social care up the political agenda is encouraging and correct, if perhaps “brave” as Sir Humphrey would have put it.
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Social Care Foundation responds to latest Louise Casey speech
07 July 2026
In her keynote speech to the Local Government Association’s annual conference in Bournemouth today (July 7, 2026), Baroness Louise Casey outlined the next phase of her Commission’s work on Adult Social Care.
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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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