Of course, no Parliament is ever able to truly future-proof legislation. And nobody could have predicted the particular political, economic and societal events of the last ten years, many of which have impacted significantly on adult social care either directly or indirectly. But the government at the time, and the many people involved in bringing the Act to fruition, hoped the legislation would offer a sense of perpetuity. Or, as the then government put it: ‘modern law for 21st century care and support’.