Spring Budget 2017: Social care Green Paper imminent, says Hammond

The budget revealed an additional £2bn funding would be made available to social care in England over the next three years, with £1bn made available in 2017/18 alone.  Chancellor Phillip Hammond said this would be in addition to £7bn the government was planning to put into the social care system over the next three years and that options for future funding "do not include, and never have included, a death tax". The Green Paper on social care will be the latest major review into social care funding since the Dilnot Commission's report published in July 2011, which led to the implementa...