Social care in the UK is extremely outdated. It’s still based on a ‘medical model’ that frames the body or mind of a Disabled person as something that needs to be ‘fixed’.
This model allows local authority officials searching for quick savings to resort to regressive, ableist policies; placing us in residential care where they can meet our ‘needs’ and save costs without regard to our wants or independence.
The result is that just 13% of people are satisfied with the social care system, according to last year’s annual British Social Attitudes survey – the lowest level of satisfaction recorded since the survey began in 1983.
