Reframing the adult social care crisis

For too long, the debate over adult social care reform in England has been paralysed by a single, daunting question: How much will it cost? Inevitability followed by successive governments balking at the price tag of change. Yet, a groundbreaking report from the House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee, Adult Social Care Reform: The Cost of Inaction (5 May 2025), flips this narrative on its head. By focusing on the staggering human, financial and societal costs of doing nothing, the report offers a bold new perspective that could finally force the desperate change needed to m...