1. Introduction
2. A Brief History: How We Got Here
3. Understanding Social Care
4. Learning from the Past
5. Learning from Abroad
6. Who Cares?
7. A 1948 Moment? The Politics and Process of Reform
8. A New Future for Social Care
Richard Humphries has worked in social care for forty-five years in various roles including as a social worker, Director of Social Services and for eleven years as Senior Fellow at The King's Fund. He is a Senior Policy Advisor at the Health Foundation and Visiting Professor at the University of Worcester.
"This long overdue treatise is beautifully crafted, highly coherent and amply illustrates the value of listening to the lived and living experience of people who use services, including the author's own parents... Here at last we have a definitive picture of our social care crisis, what went wrong, the politics of it all and how over many years we failed to solve the problem." Professional Social Worker
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