Happy to see this work live, alongside our partners #SocialCareFuture @adass.bsky.social and @local.gov.uk.
#SocialCareFuture 2025 gathering:
Support workers, commissioners, disabled people, policy makers, older people... united by a shared passion for creating a Social Care Future where we get live our Gloriously Ordinary Lives.
Some reflections ⬇️
www.gloriouslyordinarylives.co.uk/gloriously-o...
Always looks like the #SocialCareFuture Gathering is being raided by the police, but I think the venue is just next to the police station…
At #socialcarefuture gathering Andy McCabe introduces the session on Fixing Adult Social Care’s plumbing and wiring
At #socialcarefuture gathering there is call for radical commissioning reform.
@coproisaac.bsky.social says people can feel ‘sold to the lowest bidder’ for support. Says we can’t fixate on (real) lack of money when things like approach to coproduction and equality can be changed now
Salford’s Support and Action Women’s Network choir getting #SocialCareFuture gathering off to an uplifting musical start in Manchester. Anna Severwright sets out the vision for a good life and the practical focus of SCF’s work. At @impower.bsky.social we are supporting on meaningful outcomes
Emily Brook from Care City invites us to rethink how social care begins. Instead of waiting for people to reach crisis point, build wellbeing-centred systems that tap into community strengths and resources.
You can find the resource here: socialcarefuture.org.uk/noticeboard/...
#SocialCareFuture
The #SocialCareFuture conveners have drafted a statement expressing our concerns about planned cuts to Personal Independence and are inviting people and organis…
Last week @jbeebee.bsky.social joined Southampton MP Satvir Kaur’s networking event 🤝 to talk jobs in social care.
He raised concerns over Employers' NI, staffing shortages & the crisis in #LearningDisabilityNursing.
We are grateful for Satvir’s time & engagement.
#PBS4 #PBS #SocialCareFuture
"Today’s collective call to action highlights the dedication of over 1.5 million care and support workers across the UK."
Dimensions CEO, Rachael Dodgson.
dimensions-uk.org/press-release/provider-a...
#MTAP
@providersunite.bsky.social
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We want to see more people with lived experience at events. That's why we worked with #SocialCareFuture and In Control to produce these resources:
💬 Research into inclusive event planning
🛠️ A practical toolkit for event organisers
Explore these resources bit.ly/3VcvDsu
Start 2025 with a renewed focus on generating better workplace relationships for staff retention, patient safety, collaboration with families. Join our community of learners and innovators: restorativethinking.co.uk/self-guided/
#socialcare #socialcarefuture #peoplepromise #nhsworkforceplan #nhs
The 2025 budget impacts the #SocialCare we all need in our communities.
Be it residential care, supported living, or specialist support, our #socialcare is vital to enable us to live our lives, safe and well in our homes.
#ProvidersUnite #ForTheLifeWeWant #SocialCareFuture
Changing the world together. Love this short film that Leighton Wise made at the September 24 #SocialCareFuture gathering, which this year focused on growing people power. Give it a watch: socialcarefuture.org.uk/noticeboard/...
On why we should retire the idea of ‘caring for’ people, in order to show we care about each other & and win support for lasting social care reform www.linkedin.com/pulse/caring... #SocialCareFuture
#SocialCareFuture
#GloriouslyOrdinaryLives #RewritingSocialCare
#UsNotThemAndUs socialcarefuture.org.uk/changing-the...
#SocialCareFuture convener Neil Crowther considers the steps that could be taken to breathe new life into Self Directed Support
Thank you to everyone who planned, organised and led today's #SocialCareFuture Conference.
A view of blue sky and sunny fields and hills through a train window
On my way to Manchester through the sunny Peak District ☀️ for the @socialcarefuture.bsky.social Building People Power gathering. Looking forward to talking about ways to challenge language and labels and catching up with fabulous folk all working towards a brighter #SocialCareFuture
How to build public support to transform social care.
This work is the culmination of research and development involving and supported by members of the #socialcarefuture movement.
socialcarefuture.org.uk/how-to-build...
Two adults on a playground see saw. The man low down and smiling at the camera. The women is up and his smiling at him.
We're sharing glimpses of a future beyond our current social care system - one where people are drawing on and stitching together different resources, creativity, relationships and opportunities to live great lives: socialcarefuture.org.uk/glimpses-of-... #SocialCareFuture
We are #SocialCareFuture and we believe we all have the right to live in the place we call home, with the people and things we love. Check out our animated short: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E_Q...