Lunchtime Debating Club - The Future of Social Care

Dine, Discuss, and Debate in a friendly environment!

Join us for our popular Lunchtime Debating Club for an afternoon of friendly conversation whilst dining at a local restaurant.

This month we'll be discussing: What form should social care take in the future?

Care when we are incapable of caring for ourselves is a fact that many of us will have to deal with and is a worry to many.

Successive Governments, of all persuasions, have grappled with this topic yet none have produced a solution. (The Dilnot Commission being the latest example.)

Meanwhile the current system is not working. Many do not get the care they need and lack of care provision is regularly cited as a major reason for the NHS's problems.

• What can be done to address this problem?
• Is social care a Government problem or the responsibility of the individual?
• Where does health care stop and social care start?
• Why has this problem seemed so intractable?
• What options are available to fund Social Care?
• Specifically, why have Dilnot's recommendations been kicked into the long grass?
• Is there any confidence that the current Government will succeed where others have failed?
• What can be learned from other countries, is there a working model we could adopt?

This is a topic that is likely in one way or another to affect us all so will, hopefully, be likely to stimulate an interesting debate

Come along and share your views on these questions and anything else related that's on your mind.

About Debating Club

Our discussions can cover any socially relevant issue. Participants decide on the topics for discussion based on their interests. From evolution to anthropology, from economics to psychology, from the environment to . . . anything that catches your interest.

If you want to contribute, we’d ask you to prepare something that has fired up your imagination. Contributions might be sharing ideas from a book or article you’ve read, or simply an idea that you’ve researched. Individuals will submit a written summary of their idea before the meal.

On the day, the group will question, debate, and assess the implications. If you want to come along to listen and comment, that’s fine too. The aim is to engage a group of like-minded people who enjoy understanding and challenging each other’s ideas.