social care
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National Care Service?
Boris Johnson promised to “fix social care once and for all”. After the last election, he backed this up with a pledge to provide a plan for solving social care within a year. We are still waiting for his plan, but in this week’s Lowdown, we show that there are more reasons than ever to leave behind an era… Continue reading
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The failed profit model that manages misery
By TruePublica: Welfare Weekly has another story to warm the heart of soulless neoliberals. “Civil servants working for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have been handed over £40 million in performance-related bonuses, despite serious problems with the rollout of universal credit and a startling increase in the number of successful disability benefit appeals.” Continue reading
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The Department of Work and Pensions and Atos Healthcare: still failing UK’s most vulnerable By Jennifer Kennedy
Disabled people are forced to live on the breadline for months as Atos failed to give them an appointment. Sick people are told they can work months before dying. People are driven to suicide. The breaking of our support system for ill and disabled people continues… Continue reading
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Half a million in the UK deprived of social care over the last five years By Robert Stevens
A new study by the Personal Social Services Research Unit at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and the University of Kent has found that, since 2008, an estimated 483,000 elderly and disabled people have either lost their care support, or are no longer eligible. Continue reading
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Social care in the community – the fight for independent living By Kate Belgrave
As the Care Bill returns to the Commons next week, the hospital closure clause isn’t the only problem with it. The Care Bill will make access to properly funded social care harder rather than easier for many – even as the government tries to strip away other lifelines. Continue reading
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Who cares? Market forces, social care and the NHS By Marianna Fotaki
The 1.4 million social care workers in England who look after older people and those with disabilities are often paid below the minimum wage, have few or no qualifications, and are often expected to undertake increasingly complex medical tasks – and 60% of them providing care to people in their own homes are on ‘zero… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 