Devolution is now increasingly seen as one of the key means through which to tackle the complex challenges facing the health and social care sector, with around half of devolution deals including asks relating to devolved power over health and social care.
In her conference speech, Theresa May committed her government to achieving ‘an economy that works for everyone’. In this, she is touching on a point that many of us have known, and sought to respond to, for decades – that poverty and inequality persist, that this is unacceptable and that the prevailing economic model leaves too many people behind. The question is, how far is the government prepared to go in solving systemic poverty and inequality?