Social care
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The National Care Service – Where Now?
PublicationThis paper has been prepared following shared discussions between six organisations: the Coalition of Care and Support Providers in Scotland (CCPS), the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (The ALLIANCE), Inclusion Scotland, the Glasgow Disability Alliance (GDA), Scottish Care and the Coalition of Carers in Scotland.
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New Podcast Episode – Disabled People in Glasgow Call for Radical Reform in a National Care Service to End Social Care Crisis
PodcastToday, Glasgow Disability Alliance launches the second in a three episode series ‘Care About Us’: A podcast made by disabled people about the social care system and how it needs to change.
In Episode Two, ‘A System in Crisis’, we speak to GDA members & activists about the social care staffing crisis, cuts to care and the reality of social care in Glasgow.
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Disabled People’s Podcast calls for Radical Reform in Social Care in Glasgow
PodcastToday on the 75th anniversary of the NHS and in the context of a new deal between Scottish Government and Local Government, Glasgow Disability Alliance launches the first in a 3 episode series ‘Care About Us’: A podcast made by disabled people about the social care system and how it needs to change.
Now more than ever, we need the Scottish Government and Local Authorities to start prioritising disabled people, embed equalities in their approach and listen to us as a community of identity.
GDA Member, Paula: “It’s a nightmare really. I wish I didn’t have to have carers, but I don’t have a choice. It’s degrading. Completely degrading”.
GDA Member, Luke: “The media, the public, they all think of us as a burden.”
In the new podcast series, GDA members and activists in Glasgow tell us what social care means to them, what the main issues are in social care and how it needs to change.
With £21 million cut to social care support in Glasgow in March, a delayed National Care Service Bill and a new agreement between Local Authorities and Scottish Government threatening ring-fenced, protected funding for social care, disabled people cannot be ignored anymore.In the current social care system, disabled people are facing: rising care charges, slashed care packages, inhumane and often cruel treatment and a system that is unable to uphold basic human rights.
The social care system in its current form is too broken and fragile to meet the real needs of disabled people in Scotland.Listen Now
Disabled People’s Mental Health Matters
PublicationThis report shares evidence from GDA’s recent Mental Health Research Project which also builds on findings from GDA wellbeing check-in calls and survey including failures in statutory services to provide accessible mental health supports.
It calls for holistic services that support disabled people’s physical, emotional and psychological wellbeing.
The Research finds that disabled people are aware of what is needed to support their wellbeing and how they can maintain or improve their mental health but that there is a distinct lack of support from statutory services when a disabled person requires interventions for mental ill health.
The Report calls for action across 5 areas-
1. Involve and Listen to Disabled People
2. Eliminate barriers to access
3. Invest in accessible and holistic wellbeing services
4. Address gaps in services
5. Promote and uphold human rights.
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Response to the National Care Service (Scotland Bill)
PublicationGDA’s response to the National Care Service (Scotland Bill) is the result of a series of events and discussions with GDA’s Social Care Expert Group, meeting online and in person, over a number of months. This response also draws on GDA’s significant experience of dialogue with disabled people over two decades, including members representing the views and experiences of younger disabled people, Black, Asian and minority ethnic disabled people and LGBT disabled people.
The response outlines GDA’s position that the NCS must be shaped to respond to people and communities who need and use social care services.
The Bill, future amendments and the service created must also be built on rights – both human rights and the rights to Independent Living enshrined in UNCRPD Article. These rights should be enforceable.
The success of the Bill and the National Care Service it seeks to create will be dependent on more detailed amendments that make specific commitments around the creation, implementation and delivery of the service on the ground by individuals, local care boards and accountability at a Scottish Ministerial level.
Fundamentally, we support a National Care Service and firmly believe that this must be done on a National basis. However, more legislative commitment is needed to create a human rights approach to social care as an investment in society.
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Dare To Dream: Future Visions Briefing Note
PublicationDare to Dream: Future Visions outlines the learning from our Future Visions project as well as recommendations for the future of
Social Care and Self-Directed Support.Download Now
