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The Rundown by PoliticsHomeThe Social Care CrunchThis week the podcast looks at another of those knotty, seemingly intractable issues sat on Labour’s in-tray when they entered government last year; namely social care.To look at how successive administrations have failed to grasp the nettle and deal with the rising costs of a sector that has ballooned in size to deal with our ageing population, host Alain Tolhurst is joined on the panel by Paulette Hamilton, Labour MP and the acting chair of the health and social care select committee, as well as Joe Robertson, Tory MP for the Isle of Wight who al...2025-05-1646 min
The Expert FactorHow can the social care crisis be fixed?Why is the social care challenge so complicated? Why can’t the nation’s politicians find a way forward? What is a possible solution? And what could Baroness Casey do to succeed when nobody else has managed to do so? This week’s Expert Factor sees Hannah and Paul joined by Andrew Dilnot, who chaired the Commission on Funding of Care and Support, to explore three decades of disagreement and delay, look at how social care currently works – or doesn’t, and discuss what Louise Casey should do to deliver lasting change. Learn mor...2025-01-1037 min
Christians In ParliamentWhat difference does Christian faith make to the Economy? An evening with Sir Andrew DilnotAudio of a talk on the difference Christian faith makes to the Economy by Sir Andrew Dilnot given in The Jubilee Room, Westminster Hall on Monday 18th November 20242024-11-2041 min
RethinkRethink...careThe care system in Britain is creaking at the seams. People who need care aren't receiving it - or if they do it's untenably expensive. There aren’t enough staff for care homes, and unpaid family carers often burn out looking after their loved ones without support.Successive governments have recognised it’s a problem, but they haven’t been able to fix it. Rachel Reeves is just the latest in a long line of chancellors to back away from care reform.How can we reform the care system so it works better for everyone involv...2024-10-2428 min
Sky News DailyWhy won't politicians really talk about social care?Four out of five people will need social care before they die - yet it's hardly been mentioned in the election campaign to date. The architect of the government's delayed social care reforms, Sir Andrew Dilnot, has told Sky News politicians need to "grow up" and tackle the crisis in the sector. On this episode of the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson is joined by political correspondent Rob Powell to discuss the current state of social care and what political parties are promising to change. We also hear from Norman Phillips who is a full-time carer f...2024-06-2121 min
Sky News DailyWhy won't politicians really talk about social care?Four out of five people will need social care before they die - yet it's hardly been mentioned in the election campaign to date. The architect of the government's delayed social care reforms, Sir Andrew Dilnot, has told Sky News politicians need to "grow up" and tackle the crisis in the sector. On this episode of the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson is joined by political correspondent Rob Powell to discuss the current state of social care and what political parties are promising to change. We also hear from Norman Phillips who is a full-time carer f...2024-06-2121 min
A Job Done Well - Making Work BetterUnlocking the Power of AnalysisWe All Need to Understand the DataWelcome to Unlocking the Power of Analysis, where we explore data’s transformative potential for improving work performance. You only have an opinion without data and analysis, so analysis is critical to the workplace.In this episode, James dredges through his 20+ years of being called an ‘analyst’ to help practitioners fine-tune their skills, whilst Jimmy discusses how front-line managers, executives and board members can sharpen their skills to get the most out of data.We discuss everything from how analysis stopped a cholera outbrea...2024-06-1827 min
The Provider PodcastThe state of social careIn this episode of The Provider Podcast we focus on social care, a service that's suffered from years of neglect, underinvestment, and broken promises. Host Susan Bahl talks to Sir Andrew Dilnot and NHS Providers chief executive Sir Julian Hartley about the wide ranging challenges facing the social care sector and how the NHS can support this highly valued partner.2024-02-2221 min
The We SocietyThe case for public consumption with Sir Andrew DilnotSir Andrew Dilnot is an economist who believes that statistics hold a key role in lessening inequality and making Britain fairer.
He is now the warden of Nuffield College Oxford - a graduate college specialising in the social sciences. Before Nuffield, he was at the Institute for Fiscal Studies where he was the Director of the UK's leading independent economics research institute.
A fierce advocate for statistics, he believes that data is at the heart of solving a whole raft of issues whether that’s social care, education inequalities or faltering healthcare systems. And the UK's social...2023-11-0136 min
Feedback07/04/2023Andrea Catherwood is joined by Michael Blastland and Sir Andrew Dilnot, authors of a review commissioned by the BBC to investigate if its coverage on government spending was prone to bias. They discuss the results and we hear listeners' views.As the jazz programme disappears from BBC Radio Scotland and new programmes for classical and piping feature fewer live sessions, we hear what musicians and listeners have to say. Professor Simon McKerrell, head of Media and Music at Glasgow Caledonian University, tells Andrea about the impact on the wider music community. One thing that annoys...2023-04-0728 min
Tax ChatsBias at the BBC? A Chat with Andrew Dilnot about the BBC's coverage of tax-related news.Send us a textScott and Jeff chat with Sir Andrew Dilnot, currently serving of Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford, about his experience evaluating bias in the BBC's coverage of tax-related topics. We discuss the complications reporters face when covering complex economic issues. We review the findings of his recent report entitled "Review of the impartiality of BBC coverage of taxation, public spending, government borrowing and debt."2023-03-1527 min
More or Less: Behind the StatsBonus episode: the first ever More or LessA chat with More or Less's founding producer and presenter plus the first episode in full.
Tim talks to Michael Blastland and Sir Andrew Dilnot about how More or Less came into being (after several rejections), whether politicians and journalists are more numerate now, and where the name come from.
Then, the very first episode of More or Less, originally broadcast on Radio 4 on 13 November 2001.2021-10-0736 min
IFS Zooms In: The EconomyHow to reform - and fund - social care?Ageing populations, rising care costs and COVID-19 have placed significant strain on an already struggling social care sector. Since assuming office in 2019, the Prime Minister has repeatedly promised to present a comprehensive plan to reform social care, the latest in a long line of governments to promise to tackle the issue.So, how should we think about reforming social care? How should we pay for it? And what can we learn from other countries?This week Paul speaks with Andrew Dilnot, Warden of Nuffield College Oxford and author of the Dilnot Report on...2021-07-1539 min
The King's Fund podcastHow do you solve a problem like social care funding?With the recent Conservative leadership contest and Boris Johnson’s inaugural speech as Prime Minister, social care funding reform is firmly back on the political agenda. In this episode, we look back at previous attempts at reform and explore why this has proved so challenging for successive governments. Helen McKenna speaks with Sir Andrew Dilnot CBE, Chair of the 2010/11 independent commission on the Funding of Care and Support, Emily Holzhausen OBE, Director of Policy and Public Affairs at Carers UK, and Sally Warren, Director of Policy at The King’s Fund.2019-07-3128 min
Swansea Cyber Law and Security PodcastCLSP Episode 6 - 09/03/2018 - Cybercrime perceptions; Matthew Falder; Organised cybercrime.Welcome to the Swansea Cyber Law & Security Podcast. Sara Correia and Patrick Bishop bring you some news and discussion on the cyber law and security happenings of the last month.The views expressed on this podcast are personal and do not represent those of our employers or partner organisations.- Sara Correia is an ESRC doctoral researcher at the Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law, Swansea University (@SGCorreia).- Dr. Patrick Bishop is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law, Swansea University (@p_bishop).And special guest:- Luke Heydenrych is the Head of...2018-03-0938 min
The Prospect PodcastBONUS: How To Fix... Social CareProspect has a new podcast series starting this week, called How To Fix... - and we'd like to share it with our Headspace listeners. In the first episode, Steve Bloomfield was joined by Andrew Dilnot, Liz Kendall and Daniel Drepper to discuss social care—what's wrong with it, and how we could make it better.You can subscribe now to hear future episodes at: http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/howtofixShow notesHere’s Andrew Dilnot’s report on Funding of Care and Support. webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/2013022…report/Liz Kendall mentioned the Barker report. Here it is. www.kingsfund.org.uk/projects...2017-09-1928 minThe Prospect PodcastBONUS: How To Fix... Social CareProspect has a new podcast series starting this week, called How To Fix... - and we'd like to share it with our Headspace listeners. In the first episode, Steve Bloomfield was joined by Andrew Dilnot, Liz Kendall and Daniel Drepper to discuss social care—what's wrong with it, and how we could make it better.You can subscribe now to hear future episodes at: http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/howtofixShow notesHere’s Andrew Dilnot’s report on Funding of Care and Support. webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/2013022…report/Liz Kendall mentioned the Barker report. Here it is. www.kingsfund.org.uk/projects...2017-09-1928 min
Cumberland LodgeSir Andrew Dilnot on 'Are Things Getting Better?'Cumberland Seminar on 28 January 20162016-02-1708 min
History & PolicyAndrew Dilnot - The Oxford School of Industrial RelationsAndrew Dilnot , Warden of Nuffield: Nuffield and public policy
The Oxford School of Industrial Relations
50 years after the Donovan Commission
Saturday 24 October 2015, Nuffield College, New Road, Oxford2015-11-0300 min
WhistledownA History of Britain in Numbers: DebtUK debt currently stands at over one trillion pounds. But while that sum may seem vast beyond comprehension, Andrew Dilnot, chair of the UK Statistics Authority, uses the historical numbers behind UK debt to suggest that we may not be in such a bad state after all. (An extract from BBC Radio 4's 'A History of Britain in Numbers: Debt', 24/02/15)2015-02-2004 min
Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and SeminarsWorld population and human capital in the 21st centuryAndrew Dilnot, David Coleman, Francesco Billari, Sarah Harper and Wolfgang Lutz give a talk about world population. The future of global development as well as the end of world population growth in the 21st century will crucially depend on further progress in education, particularly of girls. Almost universally, better educated women have fewer children, have healthier children and are in better heath themselves. Broad based secondary education has been shown to be a key driver of economic growth, of improving governance and democracy and of enhancing the adaptive capacity to climate change.
Professor Wolfgang Lutz of IIASA (International Institute for...2015-02-171h 25Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and SeminarsWorld population and human capital in the 21st centuryAndrew Dilnot, David Coleman, Francesco Billari, Sarah Harper and Wolfgang Lutz give a talk about world population. The future of global development as well as the end of world population growth in the 21st century will crucially depend on further progress in education, particularly of girls. Almost universally, better educated women have fewer children, have healthier children and are in better heath themselves. Broad based secondary education has been shown to be a key driver of economic growth, of improving governance and democracy and of enhancing the adaptive capacity to climate change.
Professor Wolfgang Lutz of IIASA (International Institute for...2015-02-171h 25
A History of Britain in NumbersLivingAndrew Dilnot, chair of the UK Statistics Authority, tells the story of a transformation in personal life in Britain, through the numbers that capture change on the grand scale.He delves into the data for the big patterns and trends in history, finding new ways of thinking about the whole shape of the population - the balance between adults and children, for example, or the shifting shape of what we do with our lives, from infancy to retirement and death. He seeks answers in history to some of the problems that perplex us now, such as how...2013-11-2913 minA History of Britain in NumbersWomenAndrew Dilnot, chair of the UK Statistics Authority, tells the story of a transformation in personal life in Britain, through the numbers that capture change on the grand scale.He delves into the data for the big patterns and trends in history, finding new ways of thinking about the whole shape of the population - the balance between adults and children, for example, or the shifting shape of what we do with our lives, from infancy to retirement and death. He seeks answers in history to some of the problems that perplex us now, such as how...2013-11-2814 minA History of Britain in NumbersOld AgeAndrew Dilnot, chair of the UK Statistics Authority, tells the story of a transformation in personal life in Britain, through the numbers that capture change on the grand scale.He delves into the data for the big patterns and trends in history, finding new ways of thinking about the whole shape of the population - the balance between adults and children, for example, or the shifting shape of what we do with our lives, from infancy to retirement and death. He seeks answers in history to some of the problems that perplex us now, such as how...2013-11-2713 minA History of Britain in NumbersWorkAndrew Dilnot, chair of the UK Statistics Authority, tells the story of a transformation in personal life in Britain, through the numbers that capture change on the grand scale.He delves into the data for the big patterns and trends in history, finding new ways of thinking about the whole shape of the population - the balance between adults and children, for example, or the shifting shape of what we do with our lives, from infancy to retirement and death. He seeks answers in history to some of the problems that perplex us now, such as how...2013-11-2613 minA History of Britain in NumbersEducationAndrew Dilnot, chair of the UK Statistics Authority, tells the story of a transformation in personal life in Britain, through the numbers that capture change on the grand scale.He delves into the data for the big patterns and trends in history, finding new ways of thinking about the whole shape of the population - the balance between adults and children, for example, or the shifting shape of what we do with our lives, from infancy to retirement and death. He seeks answers in history to some of the problems that perplex us now, such as how...2013-11-2513 minA History of Britain in NumbersHomesAndrew Dilnot, chair of the UK Statistics Authority (2012-2017) tells the story of a transformation in personal life in Britain, through the numbers that capture change on the grand scale.He delves into the data for the big patterns and trends in history, finding new ways of thinking about the whole shape of the population - the balance between adults and children, for example, or the shifting shape of what we do with our lives, from infancy to retirement and death. He seeks answers in history to some of the problems that perplex us now, such as...2013-11-2213 minA History of Britain in NumbersStuffAndrew Dilnot, chair of the UK Statistics Authority (2012-2017), tells the story of a transformation in personal life in Britain, through the numbers that capture change on the grand scale.He delves into the data for the big patterns and trends in history, finding new ways of thinking about the whole shape of the population - the balance between adults and children, for example, or the shifting shape of what we do with our lives, from infancy to retirement and death. He seeks answers in history to some of the problems that perplex us now, such as...2013-11-2113 minA History of Britain in NumbersHealthAndrew Dilnot, chair of the UK Statistics Authority, tells the story of a transformation in personal life in Britain, through the numbers that capture change on the grand scale.He delves into the data for the big patterns and trends in history, finding new ways of thinking about the whole shape of the population - the balance between adults and children, for example, or the shifting shape of what we do with our lives, from infancy to retirement and death. He seeks answers in history to some of the problems that perplex us now, such as how...2013-11-2014 minA History of Britain in NumbersProsperityAndrew Dilnot, chair of the UK Statistics Authority (2012-2017), tells the story of a transformation in personal life in Britain, through the numbers that capture change on the grand scale.He delves into the data for the big patterns and trends in history, finding new ways of thinking about the whole shape of the population - the balance between adults and children, for example, or the shifting shape of what we do with our lives, from infancy to retirement and death. He seeks answers in history to some of the problems that perplex us now, such as...2013-11-1913 minA History of Britain in NumbersPopulationAndrew Dilnot, chair of the UK Statistics Authority (2012-2017), tells the story of a transformation in personal life in Britain, through the numbers that capture change on the grand scale.
He delves into the data for the big patterns and trends in history, finding new ways of thinking about the whole shape of the population - the balance between adults and children, for example, or the shifting shape of what we do with our lives, from infancy to retirement and death. He seeks answers in history to some of the problems that perplex us now, such as how badly...2013-11-1813 min
WhistledownBritain in StatsAndrew Dilnot's 10 part Whistledown series
looks at The History of Britain in Numbers.
Here's a preview on The Today programme.2013-11-1806 min
Autumn 2011 | Public lectures and events | VideoLSE Health and Social Care Annual Lecture 2011 - Fairer Care FundingContributor(s): Andrew Dilnot | Achieving a sustainable and fair system for funding the support required by people with social care needs represents a growing challenge to governments across the world. In his address, Andrew Dilnot will introduce the rationale for the recommendations made by the independent Commission on the Funding of Care and Support set-up by the coalition government and which reported in July 2012. How do the Commission's proposals allocate responsibility between individual and the state, and why? Andrew Dilnot is Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford and a Pro Vice Chancellor of Oxford University. He was the Chairman of...2011-11-221h 25Autumn 2011 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfLSE Health and Social Care Annual Lecture 2011 - Fairer Care FundingContributor(s): Andrew Dilnot | Achieving a sustainable and fair system for funding the support required by people with social care needs represents a growing challenge to governments across the world. In his address, Andrew Dilnot will introduce the rationale for the recommendations made by the independent Commission on the Funding of Care and Support set-up by the coalition government and which reported in July 2012. How do the Commission's proposals allocate responsibility between individual and the state, and why? Andrew Dilnot is Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford and a Pro Vice Chancellor of Oxford University. He was the Chairman of...2011-11-221h 25
Groks Science Radio Show and PodcastNumbers Game -- Groks Science Show 2009-02-18Large numbers and statistics constantly bombard us in the news, but putting those numbers into context is essential for understanding their real meaning. On this program, Andrew Dilnot from Oxford University discussed the numbers game.2009-02-1826 minSpring 2008 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfBeauty and the Beast - Numbers and Public PolicyContributor(s): Andrew Dilnot, Michael Blastland | Numbers have become the all-powerful language of public argument, but too often, that power is abused and the numbers bamboozle. How can we see our way through them? Michael Blastland is a writer and broadcaster and the originator of the More or Less programme on BBC Radio 4. Andrew Dilnot is principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford, and former director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies.2008-02-111h 24