Care after Coronavirus: An emerging consensus

Care after Coronavirus: An emerging consensus [blog]
IPPR 22 May 2020

• A summary of the six key findings from a nationally representative poll sample of 2,475 British adults on their views on social care after the coronavirus.

1. There is a crisis in confidence in social care as a result of Covid-19
2. The public recognise that we need to spend more on social care in the future
3. They want care workers to receive a pay rise
4. They are sceptical of voluntary insurance and using personal housing wealth as a way of achieving that
5. They support an extension of NHS principles: ‘free at the point of need and taxpayer funded’
6. There is a growing cross-party consensus