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How do you solve an issue like social care funding?

After the recent Conservative leadership contest and Boris Johnson’s inaugural speech as Prime Minister, social care funding reform is firmly back on the political agenda.

In this Kings Fund Blog and Podcast they look back at previous attempts at reform and explore why this area has proved so challenging for successive governments.

Helen McKenna speaks with Sir Andrew Dilnot CBE, Chair of the 2010–11 independent commission on the Funding of Care and Support, Emily Holzhausen OBE, Director of Policy and Public Affairs at Carers UK, and Sally Warren, Director of Policy at The King’s Fund.