Reframing social care

19 Feb 2020

A recent blog about social care has given us courage. The author, Neil Crowther, is an independent consultant and co-convener of Social Care Future.

"We all want to live in the place we call home with the people and things that we love, doing what matters to us in communities where we look out for one another," he says. "Everyone has reason to value approaches that helps us to maintain or secure this vision. The building blocks for achieving it are with us, they’re just not evenly distributed. Our desire to bring that future vision forward is why we have started work on changing how people talk about, think about and feel about social care."

If you’d like to read the blog, here’s the link: Talking About A Brighter Social Care Future

ACSYL delights in focusing on assets, not deficits. We see our clients as uniquely gifted individuals who have a great deal to offer their communities. So we fully endorse the values of equality, justice and reciprocity that Social Care Future set out in October 2019:

• viewing social care as a springboard, not a safety net
• focusing on people’s gifts and potential rather than their needs
• recognising the transformative effect of "great care and support"
• seeing "the growing value to society of great support" whereas "the dominant narrative presents social care as a growing social and financial cost"
• envisioning "our fellow citizens being supported to live lives that they choose to lead, as part of a reciprocal web of community based support"
• encouraging innovation

You can read the full article by Social Care Future here: Talking about a Brighter Social Care Future