NaCSILS
By nacsils
NaCSILSJan 19, 2023
Continuing healthcare from users’ point of view
A chat about continuing healthcare by people who use and have experienced continuing healthcare.
We discuss:
1. What is continuing healthcare
2. How we use continuing healthcare
3. What works well
4. What doesn’t work well
5. How we would like to see continuing healthcare updated or improved
WinVisible: for International Women’s Day, disabled women talk about discrimination in social care
WinVisible (women with visible & invisible disabilities) is a multi-racial grassroots group that provides self-help info and support, enables refugee and UK-born disabled women to share experiences, and campaigns.
Blog: www.winvisible.org
Twitter: @WinVisibleWomen
Talking about:
· our Disabled Mothers’ Rights Campaign, challenging the lack of support by Councils and discrimination by the family courts that leads to traumatic separation of mums and kids;
· how disabled children are massively over-represented and mistreated in the care industry;
· a lesbian disabled single mum describing homophobia;
· a refugee woman spelling out her experience of the hostile environment;
· impact on us of care charges and bad conditions of privatised care workers; and
· being part of a campaign for a living wage/Care Income for all caring work alongside free accountable services.
Exciting NaCSILS ‘End Social Care Disgrace!’ Public Meeting, Thursday 3rd Feb 2022, 7- 9pm
Online meeting attended by about 100 people about what is wrong with adult social care and how we can campaign to improve adult social care. Hear some really powerful stories about how people are being failed by the adult social care system. Hear, also, the energy and enthusiasm to bring about change.
Speakers include:
Jan Shortt, General Secretary of the National Pensioners Convention,
Mark Harrison, Chair, Reclaiming Our Futures Alliance of disabled people and organisations
Ali Treacher, Unite and Secretary of Care & Support Workers Organise
Tony O’Sullivan, Co-chair of Keep Our NHS Public
Don O’Neal, disabled activist and author of ‘The Lack of Care Act 2014: Service users’ perspectives of a failing adult social care system’
Professor Tony Evans, co-chair of Labour Social Work Group
Rachael Maskell, Labour MP York Central, previously Equality Officer at Unite
What is Nacsils
Learn more about Nacsils, its 7 demands and how it hopes to achieve them.