The panel's members are: Nadra Ahmed, Professor Martin Green, Professor Vic Rayner, Caroline Abrahams, Dr Jane Townson, Karen Hedge, Jeremy Richardson, Bill Morgan, Daniel Casson, Sam Monaghan, James Tugendhat and Lionel Zetter.

Damian Green, chairman of the SCF, said: ‘We are particularly keen to avoid a "boiling frog" scenario where standards of care inexorably slip under financial pressure.

‘The whole care sector is gripped by the urgency of the need for change, and the advisory council will help the Social Care Foundation make the practical case for the changes that ought to be happening now, not in the distant future.'

One of the priority objectives of the panel will be to help the Casey Commission to conclude its work as quickly as possible by producing a series of specific suggestions to improve the UK care system.

The Commission is currently not due to complete its work until 2028.

It will also recommend to the UK Government a series of practical changes that could be implemented quickly.