The leading think-tank Demos announced last year that it would be considering the future of residential care via a special Commission to chaired by former Care Services Minister Paul Burstow MP. The Commission was to be assigned the aim of developing a vision of residential care ‘that is fit for the 21st century’.
The Demos Commission on Residential Care (CORC) which is now ‘up and running’ and has just issued a call for evidence about the future direction of the care home sector – click here to download the details of the call. Submissions should be sent to corc@demos.co.uk before 31st May 2014. We would encourage Rescare members and family carers generally, with experience of residential provision, to submit evidence.
This is how the call for evidence is presented by Demos:
In the first phase of our research, we are issuing a call for evidence, allowing us to
draw on the views of a wide range of users, experts and providers about the place of
residential care in a modern care system. We are inviting answers to the following
questions (though if there is anything else that you feel is relevant, do feel free to
include it):
1. How do you define residential care? Do you see extra care,retirement villages and other “housing with care” options as different by definition? What makes them different?
2. What outcomes do people value when it comes to care and support (e.g. choice, control, independence)?
3. Can existing residential care (as you define it) deliver these outcomes? If so, in what ways? If not, what would need to change for it to do this?
4. Is there a difference between good residential care and other forms of good care? If so, what makes it different?
5. How will the role of residential care change in the future? What future role would you like to see for residential care?
Rescare will be submitting its own evidence to the Demos Commission, based on its experience representing and supporting members (familiy carers) whose relatives are in residential care.