The Government has said that they will publish a White Paper on the future of social care in April 2012, alongside a progress report on funding.
This White Paper will build on the Department of Health’s vision for adult social care services and two important reports from the Law Commission and the Dilnot Commission. The Law Commission has recommended changes to adult social care law, to make it simpler and easier to understand. The Dilnot Commission has advised the Government on how social care should be funded in the future.
In September, the Department of Health launched a 3 month consultation, ‘Caring for our future: shared ambitions for care and support’. The aim of the consultation was to get opinions from the care and support sector and the general public regarding 6 aspects of social care: quality of care, personalisation, shaping local care services, prevention, integration, and the role of financial services. As part of the consultation, Radar invited disabled people and local disabled people’s organisations to share their opinions about shaping local care services, at workshops held in London, Manchester and Plymouth.
We wrote a report highlighting the key issues that arose in the workshops. You can read our report here.
The feedback collected in the Department of Health’s consultation is being used to inform the policy recommendations for the Care and Support White Paper
For more information about the Department of Health’s work, go to http://caringforourfuture.dh.gov.uk/
