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LSE Inequalities blog post by Tania Burchardt

Published/Broadcast 6 May 2026

"Social inequality should be at the heart of the Casey Commission on Adult Social Care in the UK"
LSE Inequalities blog post

The Casey Commission will consider wholesale reforms to the UK’s long-term care system. But given the dramatically higher care needs among the least well off, should social and economic inequalities be *the* central framework for understanding the nature of the problem that the Commission’s been asked to fix? Tania Burchardt makes the case for an integrated, cross-departmental approach to reform based around the “social determinants” of need.