The newly appointed Commission on the Funding of Care and Support has started its consideration of how to achieve an affordable and sustainable funding system for care and support of adults in England.
The commission, set up in July 2010, will report within a year. Its brief is to look at a range of ideas compatible with the personalisation of care, preventative services and partnership working. Specifically it has been asked to make recommendations on how:
- best to meet the cost of care and support based on a partnership between individuals and the state
- people can choose to protect their assets, especially their home, against the cost of care
- public funding can be best used to meet care and support needs
- the commission's eventual preferred option can be delivered, along with timescales, an assessment of impact on local authorities and the NHS, and, if appropriate, details of financial regualtion.
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