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a remuneration package, and a career escalator so that people know they are in a proper and respected career. When all that has happened, we need to look at how we fund it.
Some of it will have to be paid out of taxation, but we need to give citizens some choice. Some people might be happy to allow their care costs to be paid out of their estate when they die, some people might be happy with a government-backed bond, some might want to have an insurance scheme.
TCHE: Do you think the government will introduce a social care insurance scheme?
Green: I think there will have to be an element of an insurance scheme that is a national one, just as we have for state pensions. People should have the option to start paying when they start work - just as they do with the state pension - because the earlier you start, the less you need to put in. I think there could be some very interesting things around a government- backed bond, which is attached to a mortgage or, indeed, to rent. So, you pay your extra £10 per month - or whatever it might be - from the moment you are independent in your own home. Another option could be, well, I’m going to wait until I’m 40 and pay a percentage of my current income.
In the end, it’s about having a layer of different choices for people. Too often, the discussion has been about one solution but there’s not necessarily one solution that fits everybody.
TCHE: What do you expect the political process will for any social care reform introduced by the government?
Green: I don’t think we’ll be getting a Green Paper and frankly we don’t need
We need to shift our focus from organisations and structures to outcomes and people. If we do that, we will have an integrated system
we need to do is identify the economic benefits of care, particularly in local economies.
A good example of that is to think of somebody who might be old and frail, sitting in their house and practically spending no money whatsoever. Suddenly, they go into a care home and they might be spending £1,200 a week. That money is employing local people who go into local shops and spending money in local areas.
one. I mean, how many Green Papers have we had? You could cover a wall with them! We have consulted to death. We don’t need any more consultations, we all know what the problem is, we all know the scale of it.
What we need is a government that comes up with a strategy in a White Paper that they then put through legislation. There has never been a better time in terms of the politics. We have a government with an 80-seat majority that can get pretty much anything through Parliament.
Of course, there has probably never been a worse time in terms of the economics. We have the challenge of an enormous economic burden that Covid has given us. So, one of the other things
One of my issues is that we have always raised social care reform in the context of what it costs rather than what it costs and contributes. We should remember that it’s not all about what the government has to contribute. Social care is a way of unlocking dormant resources and putting them into economic activity. Home care is another way of getting benefits into local economies. But we need a proper strategy on how to enable people to move and change careers into social care. Social care could be one of the building blocks of getting the economy back into some kind of shape after the Covid emergency.
TCHE: What do you make of Scotland going its own way with plans for a ‘National Care Service’?
Green: Scotland always does very expensive things that they expect England to pay for. I don’t know how you can square getting the money to pay for it if you also have a manifesto commitment on Scottish independence.
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