Sustainably funding a marginal welfare programme

English social care for older people faces a funding crisis. After more than two decades of growth, public spending on residential and home care fell in the years of financial austerity that followed the Great Recession, leaving almost half a million fewer older people eligible for publicly funded care and support. Social care is a non-core welfare programme financed by a secondary area of the English state that has suffered significant reductions in spending over the past decade. Policymak...