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A report published by the Kings Fund on 16 March 2010 advocates fairer funding arrangements for adult social care, a review of the current settlement for older people and a long-term staged approach to reform based on political consensus.
While demonstrating that the cost of the social care system is set to double over the next 15 years with no improvement in outcomes, the report proposes a revised version of the ‘partnership model’ as the fairest way of funding social care in the future, updating the recommendations of Sir Derek Wanless’s review of social care published in 2006. This would see the state guaranteeing to pay 50% of everyone’s care costs and ‘matched funding’ for individual contributions to encourage people to save for old age, matching every £2 contributed by individuals with a further £1.