Mission
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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.
Latest news
SNP criticised for attacking Andy Burnham over social care talks
29 July 2026
Robert Kilgour, a care home founder, said the party has ‘some cheek’ for complaining about being left out of cross-party discussions given its track record
Read more on The Times website
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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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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