Making a national care service – from roadmap to reality

Images: Marcus Rose Industry leaders, care workers, service users and politicians came together yesterday to examine what it will take to make a national care service a reality in England. The Fabian Society’s National Care Service Summit, hosted at UNISON Centre, gave nearly 80 care sector stakeholders the opportunity to discuss and debate the questions of what a national care service should look like and how to get there? The event took the Fabian’s report, Support Guaranteed: A Roadmap to a National Care Service, which UNISON commissioned in 2022, as context and asked attendees to apply their experience and expertise to the roadmap, to listen to the range of voices at the event and help build a consensus in the sector. Opening the event, UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea welcomed attendees to UNISON centre saying: “It’s a testament to the strength of feeling about the need for a national care service that it’s pulled in such a diverse and prestigious group of people. Christina McAnea welcomes attendees to UNISON centre “UNISON is delighted that the report we commissioned from the Fabians, Support Guaranteed, has become such a focus for the care sector, and a reference point for how a future government might bring about a national care service. “[The report] has meat on the bones, detail, timescales and milestones and it reflects the wide consensus in the sector that a new workforce settlement has to be a priority.” Referencing the wide range o...
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