How can the government address social care funding?

A new year and another social care green paper consultation. Everyone agrees something needs to be done but no-one can agree what it is - we have been here so many times before. We can go back to the Royal Commission in 1997; to the Wanless Report for the Kings Fund; to the Labour ‘death tax'; to the Dilnot Report and the care cost cap and to the last Conservative manifesto and the ‘dementia tax'. In a sense, despite how peculiar and perverse our system of funding social care is, nothing has happened that has impacted on the public consciousness to the extent that a government has ...