The Mencap Manifesto: Social Care

Some people with a learning disability need social care. 

Everyone that uses social care has different needs.

Some people need lots of help with cooking and cleaning, and others need help with managing their money and meeting friends and family.

Mencap wants the political parties to promise to fix the problems in social care.

Not everyone that needs social care is getting it.

This is because there is not enough money for social care. 

Mencap wants all the political parties to promise to give more money to social care.

Social care should be free for everyone but it is not. 

Some people who get social care must pay from their benefits like Personal Independence Payment .

Mencap wants this to stop so people with a learning disability do not have to pay for their social care .

There are not enough people working in social care.

Many people who work in social care are leaving and not enough people are joining to fill the available jobs.

Mencap wants all political parties to give more money to social care so that the people who work in social care can be paid more.

Paying people more will stop people leaving social care jobs and hopefully get more people to work in social care.

Mencap wants people in social care to be paid the same as people in the NHS who do same sort of work.

Mencap wants a national plan on how to make sure there are enough people working in social care across the whole country.