Resources
Many groups and organisations have produced excellent material on social care. The following lists refer to materials produced by other organisations that ESCaD believes might be of use to campaigners.
ESCaD Documents
FUNDING ESCaD’s VISION FOR SOCIAL CARE AND SUPPORT
We have often been asked about funding our transformative plan. This is how. In fact, it looks as though it would save more than it costs.
End Social Care Disgrace’s contribution to the Labour Party’s policy debate 2023
Paying for comprehensive social care
Please see the following links:
1. Fully Funded Social Care (centreforwelfarereform.org)
2. Creating a Caring Economy: A Call to Action – Womens Budget Group (wbg.org.uk)
Personal Stories highlighting the importance of Change
Age UK interviews: Facebook
Ealing Reclaim Social Care Action Group’s testimonies: [email protected].
See Sandra Daniels, Bob Williams-Findlay, Lisa and Marielle Video | Peoples Covid Inquiry
Documents by other organisations
Caring for Carers
Policy options for carers’ employment and finacial protections
Fabian Society
John McDonnell leads a group for unpaid carers. This is their manifesto ask
Towards A Labour Carer’s Manifesto
Unite the Union’s policy on social care
A Social care in crisis. Time to insource social care services
Civil Society Shadow Report from DPAC to the United Nations:
A special inquiry by the United Nations Committee responsible for the Convention on the Rights of Disabled People published in November 2016 found the UK government was responsible for grave and systematic violations of disabled people’s rights. This year the UN Committee announced a follow up to that special inquiry to hear how far the government has put into place the recommendations they made in 2016. This extraordinary report for that UN Committee has been compiled by Disabled People Action Against Cuts.
TUC Strategy for the Care Workforce
The TUC have identified the care sector as in need of radical change. Here is their plan for a new deal for the care workforce.
The Fabians plan for improving social care in the UK.
The Fabians recently developed a detailed plan for improving social care in the UK. You can find it here A National Care Service for all | Fabian Society. The aim is to influence Labour policy. Here is ESCAD’s response to that document:
ADASS’s roadmap for transforming social services.
Directors of social services offer immediate and intermediate changes that could move the system towards a more democratic, community -oriented system with better support for paid and unpaid carers. They still see privatisation as the main way of procuring services. And they only nod to a free service.
A transformed social care is affordable if we de-privatise 19 January 2023
Independant Living
Click on the following link to see Reclaiming our Future’s Alliance vision on the future of independent living for disabled people,
https://www.rofa.org.uk/nilss_project/
and download the Independent Living for the Future document by clicking the link below:
IPPR: social care free at the point of need
Please read for the discussion about funding care and support. NaCSILS does not support the implication at the end of this paper which suggests merger of social care into the NHS.
THE IMPACT ON DIFFERENT GROUPS OF THE GOVERNMENT’S CAP ON SOCIAL CARE CHARGES – IFS
It is clear from this analysis that the cap does not protect the more vulnerable. It will have a useful impact for the better off. Surprise! The IFS have offered a helpful, understandable analysis.