Former Welfare Minister Frank Field has called for a radical shake-up of NHS funding, social care and welfare benefits, to let the public ‘own the system.’
Lord Field, now a peer representing his Birkenhead Social Justice Party, proposes replacing the current National Insurance system with a new “Social Security Mutual” – which would be owned by contributors, not the Treasury.
In their research, Lord Field and Andrew Forsey, boss of hunger charity Feeding Britain – revisited the Beveridge Report – the founding document of Britain’s post-war welfare state – to see how the same aims could be met in the 21st century.
