Experts by experience to give evidence to Lords Adult Social Care Committee
Friday 18 March 2022
The House of Lords Adult Social Care Committee will next week explore the current adult social care system with a panel of individuals receiving social care. The session will be an opportunity to explore the changes that those with lived experience would like to see made to adult social care services.
Topics that will be discussed include the ‘invisibility’ of adult social care, the assumption underlying adult social care that individuals have family or friends who can provide unpaid care and support, and the relationship between unpaid carers and those for whom they care.
The session will take place Monday 21 March at 3:45om and can be followed live on Parliament TV.
Giving evidence will be:
- Sue Bott CBE
- Andy McCabe
- Tricia Nicoll
Questions the committee is likely to ask include:
- What should adult social care actually achieve for those who need it?
- What barriers have witnesses experienced in accessing the kind of care and support that they need?
- Do witnesses agree that one of the fundamental challenges facing adult social care is that it is ‘invisible’? What have been the consequences of this invisibility on adult social care and on witnesses’ experience of care and support services?
- What alternative options to unpaid care from family and friends should be available to ensure that individuals are appropriately supported?
- To what extent have the difficulties encountered by witnesses’ informal or unpaid carers affected their own experience of care and support and how could better support for informal or unpaid carers ultimately improve their experience of care and support?
- What community, if any, is most important to witnesses and what role has it played in responding to their needs?
