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The Charter for the Right to Wellbeing and service providers
The Charter for the Right to Wellbeing is about transforming councils’ commissioning process. It would apply at both the individual...
Campaign For Real Care
Feb 36 min read
Making the Care Act work
There is wide agreement on two points. The first is the Care Act is the right legislation to create a system responsive to individual...
Campaign For Real Care
Jan 176 min read
The sham and hypocrisy of eligibility - and government knows it
Arguably the single most important concept in social care is eligibility. Councils see their task as meeting eligible needs....
Campaign For Real Care
Jan 74 min read
The myth of social care as a working planned economy
Our report, Social Care Exposed , will show how social care’s constant crisis is not just about lack of funding, but is rooted in a...
Campaign For Real Care
Nov 12, 20244 min read
Funding adult social care: Why Directors' strategies guarantee insufficient budgets
The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) routinely joins calls for much greater levels of funding so the people they...
Campaign For Real Care
Oct 6, 20247 min read
Bristol's investment in an illusion of progress in adult social care
In 2023, at what is believed to be a cost in excess of £1M, Bristol City Council commissioned the Peopletoo management consultancy to...
Campaign For Real Care
Oct 6, 202412 min read
The ADASS roadmap to reform social care: Going nowhere
The ADASS Roadmap  is a 10 year plan. It aims to ensure there will be sufficient public support to drive the political system to...
Campaign For Real Care
Sep 19, 20245 min read
Abolishing non-residential charging: A winnable campaign objective
The report from Disability Law Service (DLS) sets out the social injustices that result from charging disabled people for their support...
Campaign For Real Care
Aug 5, 20248 min read
Lessons from Bristol: The toxic power dynamic of professional control and political submission
Social care is a profoundly political issue. Political leaders are responsible for two critical functions; defining society’s vision for...
Campaign For Real Care
Apr 17, 20245 min read
Address to the National Direct Payment Forum
This month, I was privileged to be invited to address the AGM of the National Direct Payment Forum. These are the people who provide the...
Colin Slasberg, CQSW
Mar 28, 20248 min read
The unlawfulness of Bristol's proposed Fair & Affordable policy
A key part of the campaign against Bristol Council’s proposal to cease supporting people to live at home if the cost is greater than...
Campaign For Real Care
Feb 16, 20248 min read
Bristol's proposed 'Fair and Affordable' Care policy is neither and we are joining the fight back!
Over the last 6 months we have been attending weekly meetings with local DPO Bristol Reclaiming Independent Living (BRIL) following the...
Campaign For Real Care
Jan 26, 20243 min read
Social care charging must end: But beware its evil twin
The Scrap Care Charging campaign is at full steam across the UK as people share their horror stories about being forced into debt, some...
Charli Thompson
Jul 25, 20232 min read
Response to The Fabian Society report
The Fabian Society’s launch of its strategy for a National Care Service drew criticism from some disabled peoples groups for its failure...
Campaign For Real Care
Jun 9, 20232 min read
Rocking the boat - The Care Act 2014
The Care Act posed an existential threat to the way Government had successfully managed the tension between needs and resources for...
Colin Slasberg, CQSW
Feb 9, 20235 min read
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