Thursday, February 2, 2012

There's a deafening silence of service users in the social care funding consultation

12:58 PM | Posted by Free Game Zone | Edit Post

Could it be that their views do not agree with the preferred form of government before, says Peter Beresford

The government has planned a new White Paper on social services in April next year. This will make key recommendations of the recent radical reform of social assistance funds, legislation and delivery systems. At the conference the King's Fund health think tank Tuesday, a new future for social care?, Emily Thornberry MP, Labour spokesman in the shadow of care, made a call to return to the traditional procedures parliamentarian. "In the past, we had a green paper, after a public consultation and a white paper," he said. "Now we move into a white paper."

The government also announced a "commitment" of the exercise to be held in the fall. Caring for our future ambitions and common supportive care is presented as "a commitment to the people who use care and support services, carers, local councils, health providers and the voluntary sector on the priorities of improve care and support. "This should last until early December.

six "key leaders of the care and support of the community" were chosen to help lead discussions on six key areas. A leader of the organization comes from caregivers. One industry representative private insurance, and the Association of Directors of Social Services for adults. Thus, the local government, private and voluntary sectors, and caregivers are all represented. However, there is a service user or representative an organization run by the service user. This, despite all the talk of the government of "user-led services ',' choice and control" and "nothing without you."

The Ministry of Health says it is committed to "co" with users and their organizations. You can even create your own co-production of the group consisting of service users and carers, who played a constructive role in implementing customization schemes.

  • So why are not users of the central consulting social care will form the basis of a White Paper crucial? What impact might this have? Service users and their organizations have argued that more effective and inclusive consultations are involved,
  • Maybe the government thinks it knows what the users of social care services have to say. We know that many people with disabilities fare particularly poorly cuts in social benefits. A recent report by Demos shows that some local authorities are much worse than others in protecting people with disabilities to be unduly affected by the cuts in local services.
Or could it be that the views of service users are increasingly seen as too hot to handle by the government? While the Commission Dilnot, as new proposals for funding of Labour before removing the free assistance taxes paid by general taxation, this proposal has long commanded strong support to service users, their organizations and their allies.

Perhaps the real problem is the lack of political will to promote all forms of pressure to put more funds for social assistance under the same conditions that made the NHS is success? While this may provide the only sustainable social quality of care that could reach a public consensus.


. Peter Beresford is Professor of Social Policy at Brunel University

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