TY - JOUR
AU1 - Beresford, Peter
AB -  Guest editorial Peter Beresford Professor of Social Policy, Brunel University and Chair, Shaping Our Lives, UK Two big questions currently face all those concerned with the future of social care. What chance now that a sustainable system of funding, and a person-centred system of support, will be put in place? In trying to make sense of the current coalition government’s approach, we are likely to get a clearer idea of social care’s longer-term future from looking at the origins of its proposals than we are from trying to interpret the entrails of its text. The Coalition Programme’s brief statement on social care contained only one fact: the establishment of a commission to report within a year. Remember 1997 and the image of Tony Blair greeted by cheering crowds after gaining a landslide victory with unprecedented public support and a massive mandate for a new politics to replace 18 years of Conservative government? Yet for two years there was minimal change, with no increase in public expenditure. Deference to the right-wing press, the city and financial institutions continued, some would say, through the whole life of New Labour administrations. In sharp contrast, in 2010 David Cameron, leader of a 
TI - The Future of Social Care: Change, Retrenchment or Sustainability?
JF - Journal of Integrated Care
DO - 10.5042/jic.2010.0372
DA - 2010-08-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/pier-professional/the-future-of-social-care-change-retrenchment-or-sustainability-0F7IiBB5uG
SP - 2
EP - 3
VL - 18
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -