Govt floats AE-style funding approach to social care

Speaking to The Telegraph, Matt Hancock, who became health and social care secretary in July, said he wanted to see people taking more "personal responsibility" for their health and social care. The social care funding proposal would work in a similar way to pensions automatic enrolment - which people must actively opt out of if they do not want to contribute to their retirement pot - and is expected to be outlined in the upcoming green paper on social care, due out soon. So far, automatic enrolment has been hailed as a success, with one million UK employers having enrolled more than ...