Dear …………………………… MP,

I will vote for you if you support a National Care Support and independent Living Service.

The current provision of support for older and disabled people is hopelessly inadequate. We want you to shout about social care! Stop the silence and the equivocation! This is a matter of social justice.

End Social Care Disgrace is a non-party political alliance bringing together key organisations representing disabled and older people, with health campaigns, care and support workers and trade union groups. ¹

End Social Care Disgrace wants a National Care Support and Independent Living Service which is fully funded through investment and progressive taxation, free at the point of use like the NHS, democratically accountable and publicly provided, which enables and supports people to make their own choices about the lives they lead within their own communities; a system that values staff but rejects the often well-meaning but divisive narrative of “doing to” and “being done to, of “heroes” and “the vulnerable” and seeks to build a powerful partnership of equals. We want to implement the UN’s convention that protects the rights of disabled people, the UNCRPD.

In the near future, we would expect you to work with your local councils to end social care charging.

End Social Care Disgrace is calling for a National Care, Support and Independent Living Service, which is:

• Publicly funded, free at the point of use and fully available
• Publicly provided, not for profit
• Nationally mandated but designed and delivered locally
• Co-produced with service users and democratically accountable
• Underpinned by staff whose pay and conditions reflects true value and skills
• Designed to meet the needs of informal carers
• Informed by a task force on independent living led by service users from diverse

Communities

You can see these seven demands in more detail here Our Seven Demands | End Social Care Disgrace .

A detailed economic argument supporting these recommendations is here https://endsocialcaredisgrace.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Adult-Social-Care-and-its-funding-ESCaD-draft-for-comment.pdf

Please do as much as you can to pursue these demands in Parliament and I’d be happy to be part of a ESCaD delegation if you wanted an opportunity to discuss these issues in more detail.

Thanking you in advance for any help you can give to promote this campaign and please copy in your reply to me to: [email protected]

Yours sincerely,

Name and address

1 Reclaim Our Futures Alliance of Disabled People’s Organisations, The National Pensioners Convention, Keep Our NHS Public, the Socialist Health Assn. Women’s Budget Group, Greater Manchester Assn. of TUCs, Health Campaigns Together, Doctors in Unite et al.