Disabled care
The National Care Service is a Lie
Author / Creator: Janice McAlpine (pseud.)
Media type: consultation response
Date published:
the plans will only bolster the profit motive that already pollutes much of social care provision, remove vital local accountability, will leave workers short-changed and, most importantly, are vagueon how it will improve anything for people who require support to live their lives to the full.
What is Care?
Author / Creator: Mark Smith
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published:
Care is not ‘an intervention’, it is a continuous series of relationships we all have in many different settings, most of them informal. You can’t deliver formal care without recognising and working with the reality of informal care, whether familial or community-based.
Common Weal's Manifesto for a National Care Service
Author / Creator: Common Weal Care Reform Group
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published:
This Manifesto lays out the principles of care that should be met by any proposed blueprint for Care reform and will be followed up in due course with a comprehensive blueprint for an NCS that would meet these principles and align with the values of Common Weal.