Rt Hon Damian Green

Chair of the Social Care Foundation

Damian Green’s interest in social care dates from his period in Parliament, when he chaired the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Adult Social Care between 2019 and 2024. He also chaired the APPG on Longevity in the same period, which dealt with many issues involving older people, including how to minimise the burden of care.

He was the MP for Ashford between 1997 and 2024. His Ministerial career included being First Secretary of State (Deputy Prime Minister) in 2017, and before that Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Minister for Policing, Criminal Justice and Victims, and Immigration Minister.

He wrote the paper “Fixing the Care Crisis” for the Centre for Policy Studies in 2019, and chaired a Commission on Social Care for Public Policy Projects in 2020/21.

Dr. Robert Dow Kilgour

Founder of the Social Care Foundation

Robert founded Four Seasons Health Care in 1989 in Scotland. He left in early 2000 when it was the UK’s fifth largest care home operator with 101 homes and over 7,000 staff – making his final financial exit from the company in 2004.

In 2004, he founded, and is Chairman of Renaissance Care which currently operates 19 soon to be 20 care homes throughout Scotland employing over 1,500 staff.

Robert’s long history with Macmillan Cancer Support includes chairing an appeal that funded the building of a hospice in Fife and personally donating the funds to enable the establishment of the first Macmillan Cancer Information and Support Centre in 2007; there are now 171 such centres throughout the UK interfacing with close to 300,000 people a year.

Robert recently founded and launched The Social Care Foundation to encourage social care reform and has appointed the Rt Hon Damian Green as Chairman.

In 2023, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Stirling for his ‘outstanding contribution to entrepreneurship and philanthropy.’