CIPFA Insight Report Launch - Adult Social Care Charging Reform in England

Aileen has been a CIPFA member since 1988 and is now a Fellow. She chairs the Institute’s Practice Oversight Panel, overseeing current practice and trends in local public bodies’ finance and governance and has chaired the working group on adult social care charging reform.

Aileen retired from the NAO in March 2021 and over a 38-year career at the NAO, she reported to Parliament on the effectiveness of government spending in a wide range of areas. From 2013, she was Director of DLUHC & Local Government value for money and published influential reports to Parliament on local government including, the financial sustainability of local authorities under austerity, mapping the increasing financial pressure on councils, adult social care, covering integration, the adult social care market post pandemic and the workforce challenges of low pay and high turnover, housing including an overall review of housing in England, homelessness, planning and Help to Buy and local economic growth and devolution. She and is now Specialist Advisor to the LUHC Select Committee. She is also honorary professor at Durham University Business School and a regular commentator on public finance, audit and accountability.

William is CIPFA’s social care policy voice, and he runs the Social Care Network. His work focuses on social care reform, and he has produced thought leadership in the areas of charging reform, children’s social care reform, Scotland’s National Care Service, and social care funding. Before joining CIPFA, he was Social Care Finance Lead at the Scottish Government where he was involved in costing a range of social care reform policies stemming from the Independent Review of Adult Social Care. William attained a PhD in English Literature from the University of Glasgow and started studying accountancy during the final stages of his PhD.

Since April 2021, Vicky has been Director for local government value for money at the NAO. Vicky delivered the NAO’s work on Adult Social Care Markets (published in 2021) and the adult social care response to COVID-19 (published in 2020). Vicky is a chartered accountant with 20 years central government audit experience and a background in performance measurement and financial management. In her time at the NAO she has worked across a range of areas including Education, Health, Welfare, Culture, Media and Sport, cross-government and Treasury.