The
social care system is failing too many, and it’s the Government’s failure to
fund social care properly that risks devastating the care sector (not workers
asking for the living wage).
Care
companies resorted to threats of closures, pressures on the already under
staffed NHS and bankruptcies
(see http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2017/07/26/government-bows-care-provider-pressure-sleep-payments/).
But,
should we sympathise with Organisations that submit bargain-basement bids for
care contacts, with no thought as to how they might actually pay their staff?
Our
Founder Kate Blake wrote a guest blog on the Your
Voice Matters Website entitled ‘Who is responsible for our failing care
systems?’ And we reiterate the sentiment
that our co-founder Kate writes.
The real villain
of the peace is the Government.
Until our
MP’s rediscover their moral compasses and release the necessary cash for care.
We need
the MP’s on side to redefine the Care Standards and expectations, we need a
Government with backbone who will defend our elderly and most vulnerable.
We need a
complete review of our legal systems: where
even those responsible for Care Legislation, procedures in the Courts of
Protection and Safeguarding Systems believe
processes are too complicated and legalistic that the system it’s self often
fails to achieve a positive outcome for the person concerned or their family.
We need a
Government that can regulate Organisations such as the Care Quality Commission
(CQC) and will act upon complaints or inconsistencies.
Too many
local authorities and the CQC find it easier to close our care homes rather than
replace poor management, untrained staff (and in some cases uncaring), and
improve care delivery to a meaningful care standard.
We
must also resist any attempt to demonise the low-paid worker. For in reality without them the entire care
system would come crashing down. We need
instead to better support Good Care; celebrate it even. Provide better Training, a better working environment.
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