A brighter social care future: co-producing the evidence to make five key changes
Social Care Future Blog
by Neil Crowther
3M ago
Groups of people with different experiences of social care have worked together to discuss issues related to social care that are important to them, while reflecting on and interpreting research on these issues. This Evidence Review is the result of those rich and diverse discussions and is structured around Social Care Future’s five key changes needed in social care to unlock an equal life: Communities where everyone belongs Living in the place we call home Leading the lives we want to live More resources, better used, and Sharing power as equals. The Evidence Review started from the idea t ..read more
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Building a bridge to the future – the #SocialCareFuture gathering 2023
Social Care Future Blog
by Neil Crowther
3M ago
A message from #SocialCareFuture convener, Anna Severwright  Wow, what a fantastic two days we had in Manchester, celebrating our 5th birthday, looking forward, planning together and launching our new animation voiced by the fabulous Liz Carr (please keep sharing it). It really boosted me, being among friends, feeling so much energy in the rooms and hearing many great conversations and ideas. It was so full of life, love and hope. A #SocialCareFuture gathering is not a #SocialCareFuture gathering without lots of singing, dancing and general merriment and this year was no exception.  ..read more
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#SocialCareFuture Animation – Accessible versions
Social Care Future Blog
by Helena Traill
5M ago
BSL and Subtitles Subtitles Comic book with alt text View comic book with alt text. The post #SocialCareFuture Animation – Accessible versions appeared first on Social Care Future ..read more
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How to Build Public Support to Transform Social Care
Social Care Future Blog
by Hannah
5M ago
We did not believe that we would be able to make progress on securing the future we wanted without changing the prevailing ways social care is talked about and thought about: as a broken system in crisis that ‘looked after vulnerable people that cannot look after themselves.’ So, inspired by other movements for change, we set about learning how to do so. Over the past year, with our partners Equally Ours, research company Survation and a brilliant working group drawn from our movement, we’ve been exploring how to shift how people think and feel about social care. Read our report: Read the pra ..read more
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Talking About a Brighter Social Care Future
Social Care Future Blog
by Hannah
5M ago
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 published a report ‘Talking about a brighter social care future’ which explores how a sample of campaigning organisations and networks talk about social care in their campaign materials, it looks at how the print media has talked about social care over the past few years and looks at evidence of how the public thinks about soci ..read more
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From Permanent Lockdown to an Equal Life
Social Care Future Blog
by Hannah
5M ago
The ‘Whose Social Care is it Anyway?’ report shows the findings from the #socialcarefuture inquiry which was led by people who draw on social care to lead their lives or who support loved ones to do so. We heard from over 500 people and from what people told us five key changes to bring our vision about where identified. They are: 1. Communities where everyone belongs 2. Living in the place we call home 3. Leading the lives we want to live 4. More resources, better used 5. Sharing power as equals Read our plans: Alternatively download the versions here… Read the main publication Read the easy ..read more
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Towards an Equal Life
Social Care Future Blog
by Hannah
5M ago
The ‘Whose Social Care is it Anyway? – From permanent lockdown to an equal life’ publication was the result of a ground-breaking inquiry led by people who themselves draw on social care, where they proposed five key changes for an equal life. Since the then many people have come together to discuss what it will take to make these changes happen and what our movement can do to help drive them. Based on these many discussions amongst people active in the movement we have developed ideas for action in our movement’s next stage in this brief publication. This briefing talks about what the movement ..read more
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A Movement for Gloriously Ordinary Lives
Social Care Future Blog
by Helena Traill
5M ago
What does it take to truly “change the weather”? Learning what works from other social movements around the world, we’ve published our new plan to take #SocialCareFuture to the next level. We’re focused on building the conditions for the change we all want through storytelling, growing people power and forging new coalitions for change that will build bridges to the future. Read our plans: Alternatively download the versions here… Read the main publication Read the easy version Read the plain text version You can also find out about the plans by watching the short or long version videos below ..read more
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Where to start in the ‘doing’ of this thing we call coproduction…
Social Care Future Blog
by be-human.org.uk
8M ago
Where to start in the ‘doing’ of this thing we call coproduction.... By Tricia Nicoll July saw the annual coproduction week with all its articles and musings, and I enjoyed lots of it. Particularly the stories of human beings hanging out with other human beings, trying to change the world, knowing that we’re all in this together. I did find some offerings less inspiring. Sorry and all that.    Most organisations are now on board with ideas and conversations around coproduction. The cynic in me would nod towards the pleasantly galvanising effect of the new Care Quality Commission ..read more
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Power in people’s hands: can we revive direct payments?
Social Care Future Blog
by crowtherconsulting
11M ago
By Neil Crowther Direct payments are one of the signature achievements of the British independent living movement.  The basic – yet seemingly still radical – idea was that people should have a right to cash in lieu of commissioned services, permitting people to commission and direct their own support, whether employing personal assistants, or creatively and imaginatively using the money to meet our life goals and needs in different ways. They were conceived to restore power to people who draw on support to be the author of their own lives and to participate fully in society. The Direct P ..read more
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