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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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The great care home cash grab: how private equity turned vulnerable elderly people into human ATMs
28 March 2026
On a spring morning in 1987, a 30-year-old man named Robert Kilgour pulled up beside a row of foamy cherry trees in the town of Kirkcaldy, on Scotland’s east coast, to visit an old hotel…
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Where are we on the Casey Review?
12 March 2026
Louise Casey’s first speech on social care since her Commission started was, as you might expect, bigger on history and analysis than solutions.
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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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