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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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From Inactivity to Independence
09 February 2026
Care England and Be Great Fitness launch second white paper challenging “inevitable decline” in care homes, with Minister for Care Stephen Kinnock backing movement-led reform
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What would Maggie do?
12 January 2026
A former care home resident calls for urgent changes to risk management in the care system, which sometimes damages the lives of vulnerable people it is meant to protect.
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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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