Our Mission
Our coalition aims to create a strategic roadmap - with short, medium, and long-term goals. We want to radically transform the provision of social care, support, and assistance. This will deinstitutionalise and bring equity through independent living in the community for everyone, in line with the UNCRDP.
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Our Strategic Goals
Short Term
Redesigning the system
Medium Term
Changing the public and political narrative
Long Term
Fully Realising Independent Living
Short Term
Redesigning the system
In the short term, we'll focus on changing the way social care operates to better understand and meet the true needs of those who rely on it. This involves empowering individuals who draw on social care, support and assistance including unpaid carers, to define their own needs and priorities. This will mean reallocating current budgets more effectively, and ending wasteful spending.
This new way of operating will also identify the extra investment needed to remove barriers to independent living, by revealing unmet needs, and co-producing solutions with those with lived experience. The goal is to move away from crisis-led decisions and create a system that genuinely supports people in living their best lives in the ways they choose.
A review of care charging will happen in this phase to reduce hardship in the short term.
Medium Term
Changing the public and political narrative
As we move into the medium term, we'll begin implementing these changes gradually, with a focus on shifting power from budget holders to the individuals who draw on social care, support and assistance, including unpaid carers. The new system will be guided by the real needs of people, improving transitions between services, ending the postcode lottery, and fostering collaboration between public services.
With unmet need fully acknowledged and public perception of social care improving, greater pressure will be placed on the government to invest more and make social care more accessible. This will amount to 'progressive realision' of the resources for Independent Living according to the United Nations.
Progress will be carefully monitored and independently assessed to ensure we stay on track.
Long Term
Fully Realising Independent Living
We will have a system funded sufficiently to support people to achieve Independent Living. This means living in the place they call home, with the people and things they love, in communities where people look out for one another, doing the things that matter to them.
Social care, support and assistance will be free at the point of need. Integration with other public services will be seamless.
A review of any remaining legislative barriers will be undertaken.
The vision is to create a system where Independent Living is the norm, with the UN Convention on the Rights of Disabled People (UNCRDP) fully enshrined and upheld.