This webinar provides an opportunity to discuss with a diverse panel of experts practical ways forward to escape the long term crisis of social care and instead develop a participatory and sustainable future policy linked with latest evidence from a new open access book*
Webinar Launch Event
Building a new and sustainable future for social care
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This event is supported by NIHR ARC East of England, Shaping Our Lives, the national user controlled organisation and network, The Institute for Volunteering Research and Centre for Human Rights, Kings College London.
The authors suggest that this book offers a blueprint for an environmentally sustainable, rights-based approach to social care and a practical route to achieving it. The book is free to download.
Join us for this ground-breaking interactive virtual webinar, chaired by David Brindle, former public service editor of the Guardian, with a diverse panel of experts. This includes:
- Ellen Clifford, Disabled activist, award winning author of The War on Disabled People
- Jon Glasby, Director of IMPACT, the UK centre for implementing evidence in adult social care
- Colin King, mental health survivor and campaigner for equality and social justice
- Caroline Emmer De Albuquerque Green, Research Fellow at the ARC South London, King's College London, focusing on human rights and long-term care for older people,
- Charli Anne Thompson, activist and member of the Campaign for Real Care
- Peter Beresford (Co-author), Co-Chair of Shaping Our Lives, the national user led, disabled people’s organisation and network
Details
Date Thursday 21st September 2023
Time: 12:00-13:30
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*The Future of Social Care: From problem to a rights-based solution, Peter Beresford and Colin Slasberg, published by Edward Elgar