Written by Peter Beresford, OBE, Visiting Professor, University of East Anglia and Co-Chair of Shaping Our Lives, UK and Colin Slasberg, Independent Researcher and Consultant in Social Care, UK

We’ve been gathering evidence about the state of social care for nearly a decade, publishing in peer-reviewed and professional journals as well as in mainstream media. What has continued to shock us has been the lack of reliable evidence in the field.