Comrades, Disabled people are being woefully failed by the state. Hundreds of thousands Disabled children, people of working age and elderly people miss out on vital social care and support.
For years social care has been a something of a postcode lotter. Given that cash-strapped council social services are not meeting Disabled peoples' needs new system needs to be established.
ROFA (Reclaiming our Futures Alliance) is calling for a newly elected Labour government should set up a 'National Independent Living Support Service'. Comrades, I'd be grateful if you could push the Motion below to your Union Branches, Union Committees, Trade Councils and CLPs.
"Conference, there is no doubt that social care is in crisis. A crisis brought about by years of Conservative governments’ ideologically driven austerity policies. Today we have a failing system unable to meet current need; and certainly, unfit to respond to predicted future growth.
Healthcare and social care serve very different kinds of need and the overwhelming majority of disabled people who receive social care do not receive healthcare interventions through their packages. Thus, making the NHS responsible for social care which medicalises the service. This is not the answer.
A National Independent Living Support Service is the way forward; a resource that best affords disabled people choice, control and independence.
Therefore, this Conference calls upon a newly elected Labour government to establish a National Independent Living Support Service (NILSS). A Service that:
· gives new universal right to independent living
· is enshrined in law and delivered through a new national independent living service co-created between government and Disabled people,
· is funded through general taxation and managed by central government,
· is free at the point of need,
· is led by Disabled people and delivered locally in co-production with Disabled people."
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