This document, which was published on 18 December 2025, sets out an update on the progress of the Timms Review of Personal Independence Payment (PIP), from the Review's co-chairs.
The document can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-timms-review-co-chair-update-december-2025?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=2892821e-1155-46d8-9852-f2e6dae48985&utm_content=daily.
The government has 3 objectives for adult social care. These are to: -
Radically improve the quality of care and support.
Enable people to have more choice and control over their care and support.
Strengthen the join-up between health and social care services.
This publication: -
Sets out the government’s expectations for local authorities, from the 2026 to 2027 financial year onwards, to achieve these objectives and pave the way towards creating a national care service.
Outlines the methodology that the Department of Health and Social Care will use to calculate new adult social care notional allocations for all local authorities over the next 3 years to support their budget-setting.
Explains how the Department of Health and Social Care will draw on data and engagement with local authorities to understand how local progress is being made towards these expectations.
The policy paper can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/adult-social-care-priorities-for-local-authorities/adult-social-care-priorities-for-local-authorities-2026-to-2027#ministerial-foreword.
In November 2025 the government commissioned the Right Honourable Alan Milburn to author a report that will seek to understand drivers of the increase in the number of young people who are Not in Education Employment or Training (NEET).
This call for evidence invites feedback from anyone with relevant lived experience, knowledge and expertise as to what the root cause of this rise in economic inactivity might be driven by.
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