Colin Slasberg

[Colin Slasberg @ColinSlasberg]

@1adass Let us hope ADASS can impress upon him that social care matters not just because of the impact on the nhs. ADASS is more likely to succeed if it learns to understand need as it impacts on the people it serves, not resources

https://t.co/yFpXn4Ezjf

[Colin Slasberg @ColinSlasberg]

@MelanieNottsDA @SKinnock @1adass It has long been in successive governments interests to talk big about social care. It conceals the truth - perpetual inaction over funding made possible by a system that calibrates need to whatever resource the political system happens to make available. Time to wake up

[Colin Slasberg @ColinSlasberg]

@cath_roff @socfuture @UKLabour @tomriordan It is also factually correct that the ADASS Annual Budget Survey claims its members have actually made billions of pounds of ‘efficiency’ savings, painlessly delivered through best practice building on strengths

[Colin Slasberg @ColinSlasberg]

@cath_roff @socfuture @UKLabour @tomriordan It is factually correct that all needs all councils have deemed eligible are always met. That is because eligibility is determined by the available budget. In this way Directors fatally undermine their own case for more funding

[Campaign for Real Care @RealCareUK]

📢NEW BLOG POST!
'Abolishing charges for non-residential care for working age people only would be both financially viable and politically feasible. It would also be unequivocally morally sound.' #CareCharging https://t.co/oB0GGI8DDj

[Colin Slasberg @ColinSlasberg]

@JonGlasby @ImpAdultCare Coproduction can never be more than tokenistic window dressing in a system that systemically has to disempower service users in order to standardise and calibrate their needs to the local resource. Why does IMPACT not support the campaign for real change? https://t.co/gKRRXYJdAH

[Colin Slasberg @ColinSlasberg]

@BryonyShannon Changing the language without changing the story is just window dressing. Social care has done that so many times. It doesn’t work. Why not support the Campaign for Real Care proposed Charter for the Right to Wellbeing for real change

[Colin Slasberg @ColinSlasberg]

@RichardnotatKF Yes to avoid the narcissism of small differences - but surely also yes to open and honest debate about the big differences. We will be failing if we pretend all differences are small when they are not

[Colin Slasberg @ColinSlasberg]

@DavidJ_Brindle @cmm_magazine @RichardnotatKF @lammadao Yes to the need for a unifying focus in the search for change, David - why not the Campaign for Real Care’s Charter for the Right to Wellbeing? https://t.co/nj5jKdKEzK

Radical, politically challenging yes, but lawful and no financial risk

[Colin Slasberg @ColinSlasberg]

@DavidJ_Brindle @CentreForCare If you will allow me a PS, David….in your Foreword to our book you say it is personal budgets we disagree about. They are a completely different concept to direct payments. If you actually meant direct payments (when used to self direct) we are in complete agreement

[Colin Slasberg @ColinSlasberg]

@DavidJ_Brindle @CentreForCare How about backing our Charter for the Right to Wellbeing as the route to systemic change David?

https://t.co/gKRRXYIFL9

[Colin Slasberg @ColinSlasberg]

@BryonyShannon Do share your thought with us once you have had a look Bryony

[Colin Slasberg @ColinSlasberg]

@BryonyShannon https://t.co/nj5jKdKEzK

[Colin Slasberg @ColinSlasberg]

@BryonyShannon Are you then open to supporting the Campaign for Real Cares Charter for the Right to Wellbeing as the route to fundamental system change Bryony?

[Colin Slasberg @ColinSlasberg]

@BryonyShannon @angelacatley @SianCommCats @tricianicoll @AnnaSeverwright @clentonF @CoProIsaac @SibthorpKate @IanMcCreath @martindavidwal2 And the language we use is shaped by the way we think, feel and behave and the way we think feel and behave shaped by the system that we have to deliver. Do you not agree that language change without systemic change is merely cosmetic?

[Colin Slasberg @ColinSlasberg]

@RobMitch92 Rob - direct payments never were and never could be more than an escape route for the small minority who have what it takes. Do you not agree the real challenge is the system change that removes the need to escape?

[Colin Slasberg @ColinSlasberg]

@CentreForCare @DrCNeedham @ESRC @SCIE_socialcare @SocialcareToday @NI_SCC @skillsforcare @CareWorkersFund @CareEngland @LivingWageUK Direct payments to self manage was never more than an escape route for people who have what it takes. Whilst this small group should be celebrated as exemplars of best practice the real challenge is fundamental change to the mainstream to end the need to escape

[Campaign for Real Care @RealCareUK]

Excellent article. This is happening across the UK already. Bristol just exposed it via 'new' policy! The system nationally is resource led, perpetuated by councils unwilling to admit that they calibrate eligibility to fit budgets! Don't believe the standard rhetoric. It's lies.