Imagine a world where we all get to live in the place we call home with the people & things that we love, doing what matters to us in communities where we look out for one another.  To change social care we need to change the story about social care #socialcarefuture has published a report ‘Talking about a brighter social care future’ which explores how a sample of campaigning organisations and networks talk about social care…

Using POET to bring the NICE personal budgets quality standards to life The National Institute for Health and Social Care Excellence (NICE) has this month published new guidance for adult social care in the form of ‘People’s experience in adult social care services’. It provides quality standards and recommended data sources for these, including the The Personal Outcomes Evaluation Tool (POET) John Waters co-creator of the POET sets out here why it is particularly helpful that NICE have…

An amazing gathering of over 300 people took place in Manchester, coinciding with the National Children and Adult Social Care (NCASC) conference, organised by  the volunteers through the   #socialcarefutureinitiative (see socialcarefuture.blog) You can ready all about the gathering, download the presentations used and see some of the sessions that were recorded here

Rights of Passage Lynne Elwell has put her heart and soul into the disability rights and inclusion movements. She has collated a realm of good information and inspiration along the way and we have had the honour and pleasure to record these and create a handbook which can gifted it to people and parents all over the world. As you would expect it is a brilliant valuable resource, a comprehensive dossier of quotes, tools, advice…

by Martin Routledge   #socialcarefuture is a voluntarily organised initiative aimed at supporting those wishing to share ideas and information and focus action to bring about major positive change in what is currently called “social care”. Those involved will be citizens, people using public services and their families, workers and professionals, managers and politicians. Our focus will not be primarily on resources, though we know social care and the people that use it have been badly…

The Independent Living Strategy Group recently carried out a study of local authority charges for social care, exploring in particular whether and to what extent the practice of charging is undermining people’s wellbeing, the primary purpose of social care services as set out in the Care Act 2014. We examined some key features of the way local authorities implement    charges and gathered evidence on the impact of charges on disabled   people. Our study comprised of two parts:…

This story is from the How to be in control DVD. There are 16 stories from people with different levels of support. In each video a person talks about directing their own support and the effect this has had on their lives.

This story is from the How to be in control DVD. There are 16 stories from people with different levels of support. In each video a person talks about directing their own support and the effect this has had on their lives.