Independent Living: a care and support system fit for the 21st Century
Today many disabled and older people are forced to live on the edges of society, unable to choose when to get dressed or have a bath, unsupported to fulfill their potential and contribute to society. Families struggle to stay together under the pressures of providing support the state can't be bothered with and those who work in care and support are underpaid and undervalued.
RADAR is determined to change this. We are campaigning against ongoing social care cuts and for an extension of choice and control over public service support (through policies such as the Right to Control). . We are pressing for a big shake up of health and social care to free people to participate and end post-code lotteries. We want to see reform and funding of health and social care at the top of the political agenda
We want a nationally funded care and support system that provides a ‘one-stop empowerment shop’ for disabled and older people. That means: joined up public support services, holistic and self-directed assessments of need, a guaranteed minimum entitlement to portable support (covering everything we need to to live, learn, love and work and take part in social, family and cultural life) and rights to an individual budget that we can manage as we choose. Support for independent living must be free at the point of use.