As members of the Learning Disability Coalition, we have written a joint letter to the Guardian, which has been published.
The letter is in response to the green paper on the future of social care funding, published last week, and calls for the specific needs of people with learning disabilities to be addressed as part of the green paper debate.
Read the letter to the Guardian on our website
Find out more about the Learning Disability Coalition
Showing posts with label social care funding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social care funding. Show all posts
Friday, 24 July 2009
Monday, 19 January 2009
Campaign for better funding - get involved!
United Response is a member of the Learning Disability Coalition, which is campaigning for better funding for social care for people with learning disabilities.
The Coalition is calling on MPs to sign its Early Day Motion (EDM). An EDM is essentially a petition that MPs can sign to ask the government to take action on an issue.
Go to the form on the Learning Disability Coalition's website to help you contact your MP and ask them to sign up.
The website also gives you the opportunity to sign the online petition to support the Learning Disablity Coalition's work.
The Coalition is calling on MPs to sign its Early Day Motion (EDM). An EDM is essentially a petition that MPs can sign to ask the government to take action on an issue.
Go to the form on the Learning Disability Coalition's website to help you contact your MP and ask them to sign up.
The website also gives you the opportunity to sign the online petition to support the Learning Disablity Coalition's work.
Tuesday, 13 May 2008
Letter in The Guardian
A letter from United Response's Chief Executive, Su Sayer was in the letters section of The Guardian today. It responds to the Government's annoucement on social care funding. Su highlights that all of the coverage of the issue so far has focused on elderly care even though many disabled people are seeing their funding being cut too. It says:
"Health secretary Alan Johnson is to be congratulated for highlighting that current funding is not enough to meet the government's own objectives of providing first-class care to those who need it.
So it is unfortunate that all of the media attention focuses only on how this will affect elderly people. There are other groups, such as those with disabilities, whose quality of life is also endangered. Social care is increasingly directed only at those with the most "critical and substantial" needs and those with "mild and moderate" learning disabilities are excluded, reducing their independence and quality of life.
It is important that we hear the voices of everyone affected in the social care debate, including those with disabilities.
Su Sayer
Chief executive, United Response"
To read this and other responses go to The Guardian's letters page on the subject.
"Health secretary Alan Johnson is to be congratulated for highlighting that current funding is not enough to meet the government's own objectives of providing first-class care to those who need it.
So it is unfortunate that all of the media attention focuses only on how this will affect elderly people. There are other groups, such as those with disabilities, whose quality of life is also endangered. Social care is increasingly directed only at those with the most "critical and substantial" needs and those with "mild and moderate" learning disabilities are excluded, reducing their independence and quality of life.
It is important that we hear the voices of everyone affected in the social care debate, including those with disabilities.
Su Sayer
Chief executive, United Response"
To read this and other responses go to The Guardian's letters page on the subject.
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