1. Social Care Green Paper and Ageing Grand Challenge
TLAP Partnership Day, 7th March 2018

2. Process ahead of the Green Paper
Following the move to the Department of Health and Social Care, previous commitments remain unchanged:
Publication of the Green Paper by summer 2018;
Work continuing, led by DHSC and MHCLG, looking at issues specific to adults of working age with care and support needs;
The consultation will include a cap on care costs.
Our aim is to build consensus around a vision for a sustainable system.
We want to confirm our understanding of the issues facing the care system as a whole, hear perspectives on priorities for reform, and debate the necessary trade-offs to achieve these.
We are running an initial phase of engagement ahead of the Green Paper to seek out views from experts, stakeholders, people who use and provide care, and carers.
This is not a formal public consultation, so we are not expecting written submissions or holding a major programme of public events. That process will follow the publication of the Green Paper. We want to use this exercise to consider some key reform questions and help shape the proposals in the Green Paper.

3. Approach to the Green Paper
Tackling the challenges we face requires us to take a wider view of ‘care’ as an individual might imagine it – looking beyond social care itself to interactions with the wider systems of support on which people rely.
What do we want from our future care system?
Defining a care and support model for wellbeing and resilience
Who provides care and what type of services will be needed?
Building care services and products fit for the future
How should the system and organisations work?
Getting the right structures and accountabilities in place
How should we pay for care?
Developing the new contract with the public to fund quality care
How should we support individuals?
Supporting places, communities and families to age well
Alongside this process, a parallel piece of work, led jointly by the Department of Health and Social Care and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, is considering the further issues which impact on people of working age with care needs. Although the Green Paper will cover many system-wide issues which affect all ages, including funding for social care in the round, it is important that specific challenges for working-age adults have their own focus.

4. Scope of the Green Paper
The Green Paper is expected to include:
System reform options: considering what good care looks like and spreading best practice, how social care is managed at all levels, and how to develop new services, improve the health of the provider market and drive consumer demand.
Wider system interactions: looking at the relationship between social care and other services which provide care and support or help people to remain independent, including housing, welfare and health services.
Funding reform options: addressing both the sustainability of funding for social care and the balance of responsibility for paying for care between the state and individuals with care needs. This will include options for protecting people from care costs.
Encouraging the development and uptake of appropriate housing for people with care and support needs.
Promoting the use of adaptations and technology to enable people to remain independent in their own homes for as long as they wish.
Housing
Building on recent progress made on integration to ensure that the care individuals receive can be joined up around their needs and aspirations.
Health and Care
Supporting the care sector to develop and spread new models and services which respond to people’s desire to remain independent and feel at home.
Supporting new positive products and services around inclusive design, opening up new consumer markets.
Innovation
Reducing variation in quality between different areas and different settings.
Enabling individual choice and control, and encouraging active and informed consumer decision-making.
Quality

5. The Industrial Strategy White Paper
The Industrial Strategy White Paper was published on 27 November, the culmination of extensive consultation across the country. It set out a clear ambition: to increase productivity and earning power across the UK
Our Industrial Strategy is built on 5 foundations:
Raise total R&D investment to 2.4 per cent of GDP by 2027
Increase the rate of R&D tax credit to 12 per cent
£725m in new Industrial Strategy Challenge fund programmes
Technical education system rivalling the best in the world
Additional £406m in maths, digital and technical education
New National Retraining scheme
Increase National Productivity Investment Fund to £31bn
Support electric vehicles through £500m additional investment
Over £1bn public investment in digital infrastructure
Launch and roll out Sector Deals
Drive over £20bn investment in innovative and high potential businesses, including a new £2.5bn Investment Fund
Review of how to improve the productivity of small businesses
Agree Local Industrial Strategies building on local strengths
New £1.7bn Transforming Cities fund for intra-city transport
Provide £42m to pilot a Teacher Development premium

6. Grand Challenges - putting the UK at the forefront of the industries of the future
Four Grand Challenges areas were identified using five key criteria:
critical to the future global economy
existing UK strengths
clear market opportunities to boost productivity
coordination and market failures
societal benefits to be realised
Growing the AI & Data-driven Economy
We will put the UK at the forefront of the artificial intelligence (AI) and data revolution
Clean growth
We will maximise the advantages for UK industry from the global shift to clean growth
Ageing society
We will harness the power of innovation to help meet the needs of an ageing society
The Future of Mobility
We will become a world leader in the way people, goods and services move

7. Ageing Society
We will harness the power of innovation to meet the needs of an ageing society, responding to shifting demographics
Opportunity
The UK population is ageing, as it is across the industrialised world.
This affects younger people as older people.
The prospect of longer lives will require people to plan their careers and retirement differently.
It will require Government – nationally and locally –to consider how best to fund public services.
It will need employers to think more carefully about how to retain and grow talent for people at all ages.
Ageing populations will also create new demands for technologies, products and services, including new care technologies, new housing models and innovative financial products.
If we succeed, we will create an economy which works for everyone, regardless of age.