Date published: December 13, 2022
New report from the Adult Social Care Committee challenges government to urgent reforms in adult social care
Last week the Adult Social Care Committee released their report; A “gloriously ordinary life”: Spotlight on adult social care highlighting the invisibility of the adult social care sector and calling on government to make adult social care a national imperative, to prepare for the future, to care for unpaid carers and to ensure that people who draw on adult social care have the same control and choice in their lives as other people.
Social Care Future is a growing movement of people with a Shared commitment to bring positive change in social care, and we also support their vision:
“We all want to live in the place we call home, with the people and things we love, in communities where we look out for one another, doing what matters to us.”
At Shared Lives Plus our mission is for a kinder, stronger society built on people sharing their lives and their homes. Ewan King, CEO of Shared Lives Plus says,
“Our vision very much aligns with that of the Adult Social Care Committee, we believe that everyone should live a full life, regardless of the support they need, and there needs to be more awareness at a political, media and societal level.
“Shared Lives is consistently rated as the highest-quality and safest form of social care, yet it accounts for less than 1%, therefore government backed awareness raising campaigns surrounding person-centred models of care such as Shared Lives will help increase referrals and provide people with support needs the insight that social care can lead to a rich and fulfilling life. In the report we call for Shared Lives to be much more publicised nationally so that more people are aware of it want to access Shared Lives. We are currently working with the Department of Health and Social Care on their Made with Care campaign, to increase recruitment of Shared Lives carers and in the New Year we will be meeting with Helen Whately – Minister of State in the Department of Health and Social Care to discuss our plans of Growing Shared Lives and Homeshare.
“We have launched our Invaluable campaign for Shared Lives carers, which aims to raise awareness of Shared Lives carers as a vital part of council’s adult social care services and to influence central government into addressing fees for Shared Lives carers.
“We support the Adult Social Care Committee in their call to urgent reforms in adults social care and encourage the government to work more closely with local strengths-based approaches.”
This post was updated on 30/1/24 to better reflect use of language around carer fees.
