End Social Care Disgrace

15/06/2026

The social care disgrace isn't some policy debate happening in Westminster. It's me worrying what happens if Mum's dementia gets worse. It's carers running on empty. It's disabled people waiting months for support. It's care workers leaving because they can't afford to stay. The disgrace is that millions of us are holding the system together for free while politicians keep promising reform and kicking it down the road.







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12/06/2026

HIDDEN VOICES:2 Older People

PUBLIC ZOOM MEETING THURSDAY 18th June 6.30-8pm

JOIN US for this second in a series on Hidden Voices to help shine a spotlight on older people,
many of whose voices arehidden, crushed or brushed aside.

Explore how we can turn this on its head with our speakers:

Neil Duncan Jordan, Labour MP for Poole, member of the APPG for Older People and ex Unison regional officer

Alisoun Milne, Emeritus Professor in Social Gerontology and Social Work at Kent University on ‘the neo-liberal market and harms to older people’

Marianne Lynch on the struggle to get care and support for her father

Gordon Peters, ex-director of Social Care on self- organising around mild cognitive impairment

Councillor David Jenkins, chair of the Leeds Age Friendly Board on building age friendly communities

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09/06/2026

It's Carers Week and this year's theme is Building Carer Friendly Communities.

Unpaid carers support millions of disabled, older and vulnerable people every day, often at significant cost to their own health, finances and wellbeing.

This week I'm recognising carers, sharing my own experiences and highlighting why carers deserve better support.

04/06/2026

Brilliant Analysis of

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30/05/2026

Thank you to everyone who came to our surgery in Denton yesterday. I really appreciate people taking the time to come and talk to me about the issues that are important to them.

And thank you to for hosting us.

See you all again soon! 💚

28/05/2026

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24/05/2026

This is really disgraceful that a City like York that prides itself on tourism doesn’t have these facilities.

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17/05/2026

This is exactly how divide and conquer works.

Yes, severely disabled people and families needing round-the-clock support are being failed. Nobody should be pretending otherwise.

But that failure is not because another disabled person gets PIP.

PIP was never meant to replace social care, fund 24/7 care packages, or prop up a collapsing care system.

The real issue? Years of underfunded social care, councils cutting support, unpaid carers at breaking point, and governments expecting benefits to patch gaps they created.

Disabled people should not be pushed into arguing over who is “disabled enough” while the actual system failures go untouched.

We need better support for all disabled people — without pitting us against each other.

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11/05/2026

Interesting how careful the wording becomes when there’s actual legal responsibility involved.

Disabled people are already facing enough suspicion without social media encouraging people to play detective over complete strangers.

A disclaimer at the bottom of a page doesn’t undo the culture being created in the videos themselves.

09/05/2026

Labour MPs constantly reacting to hostile headlines instead of challenging misinformation head on has helped normalise some incredibly damaging narratives.

You don’t beat moral panic politics by copying it.