National Care Service

The National Care Service (NCS) is a proposed publicly funded system of social care in the United Kingdom which was partially introduced by the Labour government of Gordon Brown in 2010 but abandoned soon after when the coalition government of David Cameron and Nick Clegg came to power in May 2010. Similar to the National Health Service, it would be free at the point of need and paid for through taxation.

Since 2021, the proposal has been adopted by the devolved government of Wales, where it has been gradually introduced since 2022 over a planned ten-year period. In 2021, the Scottish Government also announced plans to introduce the NCS through the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill, but in 2025 these plans were scrapped with the NCS provisions of the bill removed in favour of a non-statutory advisory board on social care. The UK Government has also resurrected plans to introduce the service since Labour's return to power under Keir Starmer in 2024, with Louise Casey tasked with leading an independent commission on how this could be set up and funded which is set to report back its first recommendations in 2026.

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