Casey Commission calls for social care practitioners’ views on state of adults’ services
The Independent Commission on Adult Social Care (the Casey Commission) has issued a callout for people’s experiences of adult social care, along with their ideas on how it can be improved.
The body, set up to devise long-term reforms of adult social care, is seeking the views of those receiving care and support, those working in the sector and organisations providing services.
It is asking to people to share, via its website, examples of what does and does not work well in adult social care, along with things that “waste time, money or effort” and their own direct experience of services.
The commission is headed by former senior civil servant Baroness (Louise) Casey, who has been charged by prime minister Keir Starmer with making recommendations for how to reform the existing system to meet current and future population needs.
She has been tasked with producing a plan next year for delivering a “national care service” over the course of a decade, which will be followed by a further report, due by 2028, setting out longer-term recommendations for the sector.
Since being formally launched in April, the commission team has met over 300 people, including those drawing on care and support, local and national leaders and provider bodies, said the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) today.
Over the coming months, it will start a “national conversation with the public” about their experience and expectations of the adult social care system, added the DHSC.