A new day for our social care?
In the first of a series of papers, Chief Executive Jonathan Senker reflects on the core policy areas that the new government needs to focus on.
There are things to be hopeful about in the new government’s missions and manifesto. There’s an acknowledgement that public services aren’t working and that this must change.
We have, however, every reason to be concerned that change will be slow and piecemeal. Assessed spending plans have resulted in public services reduction on a scale never previously experienced.
We must hold the new government to account to make the fundamental change they’ve promised ─ and that, we as a country, have voted for. But more than this, we must insist they get alongside people most affected by policy to get the big calls right, whatever the financial situation.
In my paper, ‘A new day for social care?’ I explore what kind of lives people want to lead, and how central and local government can dramatically improve the experience of social care.