Disabled people have seen their support cut or frozen as councils have used legal loopholes created by emergency legislation – and the risk is more to come in the second wave.
Private care home giants currently funnel large sums away from front line care and towards profits, directors fees, debts and rents to other parts of the same organisation, often exploiting tax havens to do so.
Plans to ‘create a local market’ in health and social care, including personal budgets, threaten to undermine our collective rights and our systems based on social solidarity. The final part in our View from the Grassroots series.
Caregiving is neither a male nor female responsibility - it’s what helps to make us all human. It’s time we reshaped society and social norms to make equality possible.
As Essex council closes the only daycare centre for dementia patients in the South of the county, its councillors cause a storm by suggesting a one-day 'dementia cube' workshop is a suitable alternative.
We've been tweeting our thoughts on Labour's Oldham Commission on 'Whole Person Care', which launches its report today on integrating Health & Social Care.
As the Care Bill returns to the Commons next week, the hospital closure clause isn't the only problem with it. The Care Bill will make access to properly funded social care harder rather than easier for many - even as the government tries to strip away other lifelines.
Labour's 'big idea' on health is to merge it with social care and maybe even benefits. It calls it 'whole person care'. But has it thought through the implications?
