Realising Britain’s Potential: Future Strategic Challenges for Britain February 12, 2008
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Realising Britain’s Potential: Future Strategic Challenges for Britain (Executive Summary) from the Cabinet Office identifies four major challenges to be faced by Britian:
- The importance of early years learning and childcare in helping those from poorer homes and in improving later performance.
- Continued investment in physical infrastructure (roads and rail).
- Demands on public services and housing, especially in the South East, from a rising population, including continuing net migration into Britain.
- Increasing life expectancy, with a rise of a half within a decade of those aged over 85, and a two-fifths increase by 2022 in the demand for informal care from family, friends and community members.
The report suggests a mix of the public and private sector providers will be required to meet demand. Taxpayers cannot finance all of the expanded early learning and childcare, increased transport facilities and care for the elderly To reduce the tax burden, individuals will have to accept that individuals will have to save much more and pay more in user charges (via road pricing and elderly care).
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