Health Select Committee calls for evidence on social care
Health Select Committee calls for evidence on social care
The House of Commons Health Select Committee is inviting evidence to its inquiry on adult social care, particularly of those people of 65 years of age and older.
20/09/2011
The inquiry will produce recommendations for the coalition government to consider as it prepares its Social Care White Paper, promised to be produced in 2012. The inquiry will consider:
- The practical and policy implications of the Government’s plans for funding social care, and the recommendations made by the Dilnot Commission and the Law Commission;
- The scale and implications of existing variation in access to and charges for social care in England;
- The practical and policy implications of the Government’s commitment to promote personalisation of social care;
- The barriers faced by recipients of social care when they wish to relocate, particularly with regard to the portability of assessments;
- Economic regulation of the social care system including a regime that can mitigate against the failure of social care providers; and
- The practical and policy implications of the Government’s stated commitment to promote integration between health and social care services.
The deadline for submitting written evidence Wednesday 26 October.
More details are available at: www.parliament.uk/business/committees
