The Government has launched a major consultation exercise on the future of care and support to identify the priorities the Government needs to focus on to improve the care and support system.
The consultation (Caring for our future: shared ambitions for care and support) was launched yesterday, 15th September and will run until early December.
The aim is to produce a Government White Paper on social care reform and a progress report on funding reform that will be published in spring 2012.
Caring for our future: shared ambitions for care and support – pdf
Department of Health website with more about the consultation
26.9.11
As a clinical psychologist working in Learning Disabilities (Adult Health) in a Community Learning Disability in Stockport, I have long been aware of the shortfall of services for those that fall between different ‘stools’, due to services working within fairly strict parameters. Those that sometimes miss out include those with high functioning autism, with learning difficulties, with vulnerability for social and other reasons, with other developmental disorders or problems, and those with mixed, but unclear, learning disability/mental health profiles.
Alan Hills