Last week I met with the phenomenal campaigning group, Rights for Residents as I continue to fight for a legal right for care home residents to have visits from their loved ones. The terrible consequences of preventing families from seeing their loved ones in care homes is an issue very […]
The previous Conservative Health Secretary promised £500m social care discharge funding for this winter. But we are now in November and not a single penny of this money has been seen. Tory political chaos and incompetence over the last few weeks means that local services cannot properly plan and […]
Today marks the start of Carers Week. Carers Week is an annual campaign ran by Carers UK to raise awareness of the work done by the more than 6.5 million unpaid carers in the UK who care for a loved one with an illness, disability or other support need. Without […]
I wrote for the Yorkshire Post about what the Tories have got wrong with their so-called ‘reform’ to social care, and how Labour would fix it. Under the Prime Minister’s plans, if you own a £1m home, more than 90 per cent of your assets are protected. If you own […]
Yesterday, I had a brilliant virtual meeting with the Slough co-production network. We talked about the great work they have been doing locally and how this can help shape the social care reform that is so badly needed nationally. The Slough co-production network is made up of local residents […]
Yesterday, I hosted a virtual meeting to discuss housing and social care. I was joined by labour councillors, charities working in social care and care providers. It was a really interesting discussion on how we improve the quality and availability of homes for older and disabled people. Some of the […]
Analysis by the Labour Party has revealed that by the time Boris Johnson’s cap on care costs comes in, 22,000 people will have run out of money. The Prime Minister promised over 800 days ago to ‘fix the crisis in social care once and for all’, but his White Paper […]
Last week I met with social care professionals who work in the Wirral in a event organised by the Labour MP for Wirral South, Alison McGovern. It’s always so important to hear from people working on the frontline of social care to fully understand the issues that we face. […]
Residents at Berkley House in Kent were told one morning that they had to be out by 5pm the same day. They had to close due to staffing shortages, leaving their residents with autism and severe learning difficulties with nowhere to go. This awful case is just the tip of […]
Yesterday, the Government published their long-awaited social care white paper, outlining their plans to reform the social care system. What we needed was a long-term vision that finally put social care where it belonged; on an equal footing with the NHS, at the heart of a modernised welfare state. But […]
Last week I met with Cllr Ben Coleman and Lisa Redfern from Hammersmith and Fulham Council. Cllr Coleman is the Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Social Care in Hammersmith and Fulham and Lisa is the Director of Adult Social Care for the council. It was a really interesting meeting […]
Boris Johnson has repeatedly promised – including in the 2019 Conservative manifesto – that no one will have to sell their home to pay for their care. But the very same Tory MPs who were elected on this promise voted through a policy so indefensibly unfair that Andrew Dilnot, the original […]
