Which of Simon's 12 Social Care Personas will be most important to this government? The BBC article blends narratives about not enough money (Persona 12), worsening demography (P6), affordability for families (P1), burden on NHS (P2). All valid issues but stuck in the same old groove (3/9).
Additionally the new government has been very vocal about decent pay & working conditions for people providing direct care & support (P10). Very welcome although there's clearly more to do to provide the right incentives for care organisations (P8) both in terms of sustainability and ethics (4/9).
But, although literally the starting point of the 2014 Care Act, nothing from recent governments to incentivise thinking locally (P3) and acting personally (P7) to provide grip on prevention (P11). This is about moving away from top-down managerialism to relational methods that actually work (5/9).
I wonder if the government will start like the BBC article at the top of this thread with images of wrinkly hands and narratives of "elderly" and "vulnerable". If people receiving support from adult social care are still framed as zombies then zombie policies will likely continue (6/9).
Wonder if this government will continue to over-conflate adult social care with the NHS when actually its impact lives or dies by the sustainability of local government and its effectiveness (or not) in thinking locally & acting personally across so many aspects of family & neighbourhood life (7/9).
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