On 13 July 2021, the APPG on Limits to Growth launched the fourth briefing in our policy paper series, which provides a framework for identifying, analysing and transforming growth dependencies in the welfare state. Using adult social care as our case study, we explore how growing demand, rising costs and rent seeking can create growth dependencies, and how to tackle them.
Join us for the launch of a new policy briefing on overcoming the growth dependency in the welfare system. Drawing on in-depth interviews with economists, policymakers and practitioners in social care and other parts of the welfare system, we will discuss a new paper in our An Economy That Works series for parliamentarians , looking specifically at adult social care.
This special meeting, co-hosted by the APPG on the Green New Deal and the APPG on Limits to Growth, ahead of the budget on 3rd March will explore a range of the options available to the Chancellor from government borrowing while interest rates are low, to redirecting de-facto subsidies in fossil fuels to a wealth tax and a new green home for the nation’s savings.
Following the 2019 general election, the APPG on Limits to Growth held its Reconstitution and Annual General Meeting on 26 February 2020, 9am in Portcullis House; accompanied by a policy workshop on the Wellbeing Economy.