01 April 2025
The Social Care Foundation (SCF) has unveiled a new advisory council to inform a much-needed public and political debate on the UK’s care crisis.
The distinguished panel includes Nadra Ahmed CBE, Professor Martin Green OBE and Professor Vic Rayner OBE and will focus on innovative and achievable solutions to the problems facing the care sector.
The advisory council also welcomes Caroline Abrahams CBE; Dr Jane Townson OBE; Karen Hedge; Jeremy Richardson, Bill Morgan; Daniel Casson; Sam Monaghan; James Tugendhat and Lionel Zetter.
One of the priority objectives of SCF’s advisory council will be to help the Casey Commission conclude its work as quickly as possible by producing a series of specific suggestions to improve the UK care system.
It will also recommend to the UK government a series of practical changes that could be implemented quickly.
Damian Green, chairman of the SCF, said: “We are particularly keen to avoid a “boiling frog” scenario where standards of care inexorably slip under financial pressure.
“The whole care sector is gripped by the urgency of the need for change, and the Advisory Council will help the Social Care Foundation make the practical case for the changes that ought to be happening now, not in the distant future.”
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