#socialcarefuture
has been developed to create a space, including a gathering in
November, for a wide range of people and voices to debate and take
action for a positive future.
We want to get past just thinking about stabilising the current
system which isn't fit for the future. We want to make a
contribution to a much more positive vision, share what's going on
now that helps get us there, and find ways of supporting each other
as we build the future.
In Control is part of the informal group supporting
#socialcarefuture and as part of this we are hosting this blog
series. Many people will be blogging and their views are their
own.

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A brighter future for people with learning disabilities
- Last Updated : 17 April 2018
By Shaun Webster
I want to share with you some thoughts about how I would like to
see people with learning disabilities contributing as paid
employees in the field of social care. I think about people with
learning disabilities not just as...
Citizen leadership – reshaping the future
- Last Updated : 13 April 2018
By Lynne Elwell
This year marks twenty two years since I ran the
first
Partners in Policymaking course in the UK. This is
a leadership training programme for self-advocates and parents and
relatives of disabled children.
As you might...
Simple Humanity
- Last Updated : 06 April 2018
By Sam Sly
I've read all the great blogs written so far for
#socialcarefuture and every one of them says a little bit of
what I would have wanted to write about, so I thought I best get
this blog out quick, before there is nothing more to...
Resources and resourcefulness
- Last Updated : 28 March 2018
By Julie Stansfield
We can be forgiven for feeling pretty gloomy when, as a society,
we are in effect seeing it as a problem that older people are
living longer and younger people with complex health needs are
surviving....effectively blam...
Principles, politics and money
- Last Updated : 23 March 2018
By Richard Humphries
This week Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Jeremy
Hunt used the occasion of World Social Work Day to set out
seven principles around which th...
Social care future – can the future be personal and human?
- Last Updated : 14 March 2018
By Sam Clark
I said I'd write a blog for this series on #socialcarefuture
ages ago and Martin has kept gently reminding me (nagging) but
there is a reason (excuse) for my delay.
Partly, it's because so much has been written about the fut...
Blank sheets or spreadsheets?
- Last Updated : 14 March 2018
By Alex Fox OBE
The people with learning disabilities who work at the human
rights organisation CHANGE pointed out to me
once that people who have a learning disability are the only group
of oppressed people who are routinely excluded from...
Why Doesn’t the Government Understand?
- Last Updated : 08 March 2018
By William Case
In the last 12 months there has been a lot of talk about
transforming social care and working more closely with health care.
Social care is still on the cliff edge, with local authorities
trying to meet the needs of their r...
Last Updated : 17 January 2018. Page Author: philippa.barker.