2021

25th January 2021
12:30- 14:00
Online event, event link will be send to registered attendees in advance.
A lost decade? A renewed case for adult social care reform in England
Dr Matt Bennett and Prof. Jon Glasby
University of Birmingham
Drawing on an initial 2010 analysis of the reform and costs of adult social care commissioned by Downing Street and the UK Department of Health, this paper sets out projected future costs under different reform scenarios, reviews what happened in practice from 2010-19, explores the impact of the growing gap between need and funding, and explores the relationship between future spending and economic growth. In the process, it identifies a ‘lost decade’ in which policy makers failed to act on the warnings which they received in 2010, draws attention to the disproportionate impact of cuts on older people (compared to services for people of working age) and calls for urgent action before the current system becomes unsustainable.
Matthew Bennett is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology, and co-leads a strand of work around care system costs and contributions as part of the ESRC Sustainable Care programme.
Jon Glasby is Professor of Health and Social Care and former head of the School of Social Policy, as well as a Non-Executive Director of an NHS Trust and a local authority children’s service.

22nd February 2021
12:30- 14:00
Online event, registration link coming soon
Using Sen’s Capability Approach and Mixed Methods to Assess Wellbeing: The Case of Working-age Persons with Disabilities in Trinidad
Dr Bephyer Parey
Sir Arthur Lewis of Social and Economic Studies, The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago

8th March 2021
12:30- 14:00
Online event, registration link coming soon
Dr Kate Baxter
Social Policy Research Unit, University of York

27th March 2021
10:00- 11:30
Online event, registration link coming soon
Jan Myers
Northumbria University
Dr Stephanie Best
Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University
Previous seminars
2020

16:30-18:00
ICOSS Board Room
Gender, Care and Social Reproduction: why gender matters for care policy
Prof. Ruth Pearson & Prof. Sue Himmelweit
Women’s Budget Group

Online event
The role of ‘replacement care’ in supporting working carers
Dr Derek King & Nicola Brimblecombe
London School of Economics

The Financialisation of Care: Investment funds and the sustainability of UK care homes



Private Labor Market Intermediaries in the evolving market for live-in migrant care work between Germany and Poland
Prof. Simone Lieber
University of Duisburg, Essen
