Today, I spoke to the National Children and Adult Services Conference alongside our Shadow Secretary of State for Education, Kate Green MP.
This event brings together Directors of Children’s and Adult Social Services from councils across England, to discuss common issues and hear from experts in this area.
Ahead of the Government’s White Paper on Adult Social Care – which we’re expecting to be published in the next few weeks – I set out Labour’s key ‘tests’ that we will be holding their plans against.
I want to see the Government present a plan that:
- Ensures all older and disabled people get the right support when and where they need it;
- Enshrines the principle of ‘home-first’;
- Puts disabled people at the heart of their reforms;
- Transforms support for England’s 11 million unpaid family carers;
- Delivers a New Deal for Care Workers;
And, fundamentally, allows older and disabled people to live an equal life to everybody else.
Unless the White Paper delivers this, I fear it will end up gathering dust alongside the many other White and Green papers we have seen before.
