Tue 11 Oct 2022 - Social care reform has long been on the to-do list for successive governments over the last two decades. In February, the government’s proposed reforms to adult social care [including cap on care costs] was published. Against this backdrop of funding promise and rising National Insurance taxation, in this session we will debate the resilience of these new proposals, the impact of future demand for care services and what role for the insurance industry and the important role it has played in long-term care funding in other countries where public-private partnership works.
Jules is the Regional Manager for Gen Re's UK and Ireland life and health business. He is a member of the ABI's Protection Committee, chairing the Risk and Data Sub-committee, and a member and past Chair of the ABI’s Social Care Working Group. Jules was on the DHSC’s Expert Advisory Panel on social care reform and has presented on social care at ABI events and UK and international conferences, and also gave evidence on the subject to a Select Committee in Parliament. Between 2018/2019 Jules was President of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.
Age UK
Caroline Abrahams is Charity Director at Age UK, where she has worked for the last decade. She manages the external facing functions at Age UK, including policy, public affairs and campaigns, and is Age UK's lead media spokesperson. Previously Caroline worked in central government and opposition, the Local Government Association and the children's charity, Action for Children. She was awarded a CBE for services to older people and to the voluntary sector in 2021.
Natasha Curry leads the Nuffield Trust’s social care research and policy analysis programme. She has a particular interest in the care systems of other countries and what England can learn from them.
Natasha is co-leading an NIHR-funded study with the LSE looking at how other countries’ care systems fared during Covid-19, with a view to identifying learning for England in building a more resilient system.
Prior to joining the Nuffield Trust, Natasha worked at the King’s Fund, a health consultancy and a voluntary sector health organisation undertaking research, policy analysis and evaluation across a range of health and care topics.
Andrew Dilnot is Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford and is currently chair of the Nuffield Medical Trustees and of the advisory board for the REAL Centre at the Health Foundation. He was Chair of the Geospatial Commission from 2018–2020, Chairman of the UK Statistics Authority from 2012–2017, and Chairman of the Commission on the Funding of Care and Support, which reported in 2011. From 1991–2002 he was Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies. He was the founding presenter of BBC Radio 4’s series on the beauty of numbers More or Less and presenter of two series of A History of Britain in Numbers also for BBC Radio 4.
Andrew has served on the Social Security Advisory Committee, the National Consumer Council, the Councils of the Royal Economic Society and Queen Mary and Westfield College, as a trustee of the Nuffield Foundation, and as chairman of the Statistics Users Forum of the Royal Statistical Society. He is an Honorary Fellow of the British Academy and of St John’s and St Hugh’s Colleges in Oxford.
Tom has over 23 years’ experience in financial services with actuarial roles primarily focussed on pricing and product development. Tom is currently the Retail Pricing & Underwriting Director at Just where he is responsible for the pricing of Retail retirement products, including immediate needs annuities and equity release. Tom is the Chair of the IFoA Social Care working party that is currently undertaking research on the impacts of the new care funding system on individuals including considering potential insurance solutions. Tom co-authored a paper on “ ‘How pensions can help meet consumer needs under the new social care regime” in 2014 and provided input into a joint IFoA/Independent Age paper on the care cap in 2017, “Will the Cap Fit”. Tom has also authored several articles in ‘The Actuary’ magazine on the subject of care funding solutions over the years.
Sebastian Rees is a Senior Researcher at Reform, the independent, non-party think tank. He leads Reform’s health and social care research