There are a number of reasons why a National Independent Living Support Service (NILSS)must be made national. The postcode lottery is an obvious one. But, more importantly, when post-2020 local authorities cease to receive monies from central government if there is no national structure for social care in place, there will be a nationwide collapse of the system.
Unless, and until, we have a NILSS in place we will remain in limbo, in a half-way-house between LAs and the NHS; medicalised on the one hand while socially isolated on the other. Nor do we want to become subsumed into the NHS, for many of us don't need medical interventions to allow us to live independently, no we need our right to independent living recognised and respected.
Unless, and until, we have a NILSS in place we will remain in limbo, in a half-way-house between LAs and the NHS; medicalised on the one hand while socially isolated on the other. Nor do we want to become subsumed into the NHS, for many of us don't need medical interventions to allow us to live independently, no we need our right to independent living recognised and respected.
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