Fixing social care can help fix the economy

Fixing social care can help fix the economy

Debate on the funding of social care always emphasises the costs, not the financial gains,  – the ‘unaffordability’ of change. In this article, we want to look at the funding anew. This debate is particularly important as the Casey Commission gets under way.  First, we need to be clear what sort of social care and support we want End Social Care Disgrace campaigns for a National Care, Support and Independent Living Service (NaCSILS) which will b…

Social co-ops: An innovative solution to our social care crisis?

While a few green shoots are beginning to sprout, social cooperatives, also known as social co-ops, are still a relatively new concept to many Americans.  That means their special characteristics, as we find them in the countries where they operate, are not yet well understood here in the U.S.  If we take the definition offered by the International Cooperative Alliance, a social co-op has the following characteristics: An explicit purpose to se…