Another Queen’s Speech
Note: Emma Smale, Senior Policy and Parliamentary Officer at Carers Trust has contributed the following blog post. Another Queen’s Speech and another missed opportunity for reforming the Social Care...
View ArticleSo who’s really going to have to pay for social care?
Yesterday saw another report taking a long hard look at the state of social care in England – this time the Nuffield Trust in Reforming social care: options for funding. The hard truth is this: we all...
View ArticleIt’s not surprising that carers are worried about the future
The White Paper on Social Care is coming “very soon” and promises to strengthen carers’ rights but appearance of a funding solution to the impending crisis in adult social care looks increasingly...
View ArticleCarers high on the agenda for the Care and Support Bill, but this still won’t...
On Wednesday, the biggest unkept secrets of the year finally emerged – the long awaited White Paper and draft Bill on social care. Let’s start on the positive side. The one thing you can say is that...
View ArticleDid they really say that?
Typically at this time of year, not much is happening policy-wise with Parliament in recess. This seems even more the case this year as everyone seems to have vacated London for the duration. With this...
View ArticleMaking it real for carers – Durham carers’ experiences of personalisation
A while back, a document called “Making it Real” was published. Carers as well as people who use services were involved in producing it, but for me, I feel we need to put this into the context of...
View ArticleCan we Make it Real for carers in self-directed support?
We have long since moved to the position where it’s regarded as unacceptable that both people with care needs and carers, have to accept one-size-fits-all services which take no account of how they...
View ArticleGovernment: this November, support unpaid carers
Last week the Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care at the CQC, Andrea Sutcliffe, laid bare the impact that the government’s £4.6bn cut to social care is having on care workers. She warned that workers...
View ArticleAsk the Chancellor to invest in care workers!
No time to read to the end? Take our quick action to deliver a Living Wage for care workers! Making sure that care workers are paid a decent wage for the invaluable work they do is a vital cause. Only...
View ArticleRetirement on hold for unpaid carers
Most of us dream of a retirement when we can put our feet up, live stress free and take up that activity or hobby we had never before had time to do. For an ever increasing number of people, however,...
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